A GILT-COPPER EMBOSSED ORNAMENT

Description:

Tibet, 18th/ 19th cent.
H. 26,5 (32,5) cm
The horse-shoe shaped ornament is embossed at the base with a horizontal band of petals set with a pair of deer flanking a central placed flaming chakra, the lower section of the arch below the horizontal placed struts showing several animals and figures amidst scrolling tendrils, the upper register with the winged kyung-bird at the top holding a pair of nagarajas with his claws and below a pair of makaras with curling trunks, mounted.
Bavarian private collection - Minor traces of age