A PAIR OF CARVED WOOD AND POLYCHROME BOOK COVERS TIBET, 14TH/15TH CENTURY |

the inner faces depicting myriad Buddhas within scrolling vine issuing from an amrita vase at centre, all painted in red and black on a gold background, with dharmachakra wheels within floral borders, and each Buddha identified by inscription Himalayan Art Resources item no. 18466.

Compare a similar technique on a Tibetan fourteenth or fifteenth century book cover in the Maclean Collection, see Kathryn H. Selig Brown, Protecting Wisdom: Tibetan Book Covers from the MacLean Collection, Munich, London, New York, 2012, p. 149. And compare two Tibetan fourteenth century gold, red and black painted covers, in David Weldon, Guardians of the Sacred Word, exh. cat. Rossi & Rossi at Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York, 1996,  cat. nos. 25, 26.