A NEPALESE GILT-COPPER SHRINE DEPICTING AMITAYUS, the rectangular shrine with insert panel depicting Amitayus, seated in vajrasana on a base, an aureol above, surrounded by two flanking figures, two horses, a pair of gandharva's above, a mountainous landscape below, the ground decorated in filigree with flowering vines, the border with scrolling flowers and parasols, the entire panel richly inset with turquoise, rubies, coral, mother-of-pearl and other semi-precious stones, 19th Century