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Lot 32
A Nepalese or Tibetan Buddhist Votive
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
12th to 15th century, bronze, has a standing Buddhist figure in high relief with crown and radiating halo, votive is shaped with pointed arch and notched decoration to edges all along, these tsa-tsa votives were acquired by Buddhist devotees and pilgrims often at religious sites, as mementos and talismanic or protective objects.

3 in.

Good patina; bottom edge is rough and appears to have been severed; wear and rubbing consistent with age.