TWO MONGOLIAN AMULET BOXES, GAU,19TH CENTURY

Reference: ART400194

The first is a small pyramid-form amulet box containing a small clay tablet of the seated Buddha Matreiya, the Buddha of the Future, the box is decorated with a lotus-petal border. The second is a painting of Shakyamuni holding an alms bowl seated on a single lotus base, kept within a rectangular box.
8 by 6 cm.

Provenance: Jan Brummelhuis collection, Amsterdam.