A GILT-COPPER EMBOSSED FRAGMENT, Tibet, 15th ct, mounted. The fragment originally from the back-slab of a deity is embossed with a bodhisattva standing on a lotus base placed on the back of a caparisoned elephant, his right hand holding lotus and the other in vitarkamudra and placed between horizontal beams amidst scrolling tendrils - Property from a Rhineland-Palatinate private collection of Tibetan art, acquired in 1998 - Partly chipped