A PAIR OF LARGE GILT-WOOD MANUSCRIPT COVERS TIBET, 14TH CENTURY |

a finely carved cover depicting a ritual treasure vase with emerging flowers decorated on a lotus base, surrounded by scrolling intersecting rosettes, the back cover carved with a geometric triangular motif highlighted with red polychrome details, both framed within a beaded edge, the outer border with a lotus petal design, the outer left edge carved with a kirtimukha mask between foliate scrolls articulated with the Tibetan letter ka Himalayan Art Resources item no. 13628.

Rossi & Rossi, Ltd. 

Guardians of the Sacred Word: Early Tibetan Manuscript Covers, 12th-15th Century, Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York, September 17 - October 19, 1996.

David Weldon, exh. cat., Early Tibetan Manuscript Covers: 12th-15th Century, London, 1996.

In very good overall condition for an object of this type and age. With some wearing and loss to the gilding. A primer layer of red ground visible in areas where gilding has worn away and on the verso of each manuscript.
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