A NEPALESE GILT-SILVER AMULET-PENDANT, heart-shaped, with two hinged covers, one side with the four-armed Vishnu riding Garuda, flanked by elephants sprinkling holy-water from vessels, a pair of vidyadharas above, the other side with kirttimukha holding a pair of snakes in his hands and mouth, both profusely decorated with scrolling wires, flowers, with lapis lazuli, coral, turquoise and glass-beads inlay, the reverses engraved with a pair of matsyas, flanked by sun and moon, and the mantra, aum mani padma hum, the interior with golden plaques of Buddha Sakyamuni and Amitabha, surrounded by dense scrolling wires, turquoise and coral inlaid flower-heads, a shaped hinged element, set with turquoise-beads and large coral-bead finial, late 19th Century

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A NEPALESE GILT-SILVER AMULET-PENDANT, heart-shaped, with two hinged covers, one side with the four-armed Vishnu riding Garuda, flanked by elephants sprinkling holy-water from vessels, a pair of vidyadharas above, the other side with kirttimukha holding a pair of snakes in his hands and mouth, both profusely decorated with scrolling wires, flowers, with lapis lazuli, coral, turquoise and glass-beads inlay, the reverses engraved with a pair of matsyas, flanked by sun and moon, and the mantra, aum mani padma hum, the interior with golden plaques of Buddha Sakyamuni and Amitabha, surrounded by dense scrolling wires, turquoise and coral inlaid flower-heads, a shaped hinged element, set with turquoise-beads and large coral-bead finial, late 19th Century
9.5 cm high

拍品專文

A similar pendant was sold at Sotheby's New York, on October 6, 1990, lot 346

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