A GILT-COPPER REPOUSSÉ TORANA TIBET OR NEPAL, CA. 15TH CENTURY

the torana with Garuda at center flanked by two naga, with elaborate flame and rhizome motif, two large makara at lower left and right, a niche with red polychromy and nimbus with five buddhas in a rhizome pattern at lower center, with the deities Vajrapani at left and Manjushri at right, both atop lotus thrones with flaming halos 



Himalayan Art Resources item no. 13098.

Rudi Oriental Arts, New York City, 1960s.

Wear to gilding and polychrome. With accretion overall, fragmentary and with scattered areas of surface abrasion, bending and losses throughout, as visible in catalogue illustration.
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