A GILT- AND RED-LACQUERED PAPIER MACHE PRIEST CROWN Tibeto-Chinese, ca. 18th ct. B. 61 cm The crown consists of five shaped leafs decorated with each one of the five tathagatas, the central one showing Vairocana flanked by Ratnasambhava, Amoghasiddhi, Amitabha and Akshobhya, each seated in vajrasana and showing their specific hand gesture, all details raised in gesso and their curled hairdo and ushnisha painted black and all leafs kept together with a leather binding, the reverse deprived from any decoration apart from red lacquered South German private collection, since the 1960s and 70s in the family of the present owner Minor damages due to age, wear