A group of nine gilt-bronze amulets

Description:

Nepal, ca, 19th cent.
H. 2,4 - 3,7 cm
The group of nine representing different Hindu and Buddhist deities, all standing and placed against a halo.
From the collection of the chemist, engineer and director of Merck & Co. Heinrich Georg Johann Harms (3.9.1906-28.6.1975) and his wife Eva Harms (10.11.1905-13.10.1998), largely collected in Shanghai between 1935 and 1942 - Traces of age