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A GROUP OF THREE COPPER ALLOY GAUS AN ASSEMBLED GROUP OF THREE SILVER BUDDHIST
Tibet, 19th century FIGURES
All cast as boxes of traditional ogee shape within custom-made Tibet and Nepal, 19th century and earlier
cloth carrying cases, the first cast to the front in raised-relief Eight Including a lama or patriarch seated in meditation clutching a kalasa;
Auspicious Emblem designs and a makara mask surrounding the a female bodhisattva, possibly Green Tara; and a well abraded furious
glazed central widow revealing a small tsa-tsa perhaps depicting deity mounted atop a lion.
Vairocana; the smallest cast in raised relief lantsa characters and 2 3/4in (7cm) height of tallest
enclosing a tsa-tsa of Amitayus; the third and largest cast in lantsa
characters and the Eight Auspicious Emblems and enclosing a figure US$3,000 - 5,000
of Shakyamuni.
11 3/4in (30cm) height of largest Provenance
Private New York Collection, acquired in Europe before 1983
US$5,000 - 8,000

Provenance
Private New York Collection, acquired in Europe before 1983

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