**Originally Listed At $2000**

Tibet, ca. 18th century CE. Exceptional gilded repousse copper plaque featuring a snow lion in full profile and high raised relief. A large example once adorning a shrine or temple, the snow lion is striding to the left, head turned back over its left shoulder with bared fangs, bushy mane and eyebrows. Lion raised from a single sheet of copper, fire gilded with added painted features primarily in red and green. Size: 13.5" L x 8" H (34.3 cm x 20.3 cm)

For a similar example, see Sotheby's, March 23, 2007, lot 77, with realized price of $10,800.

Provenance: private Florida collection of a distinguished doctor who traveled the world in the 1950's until 1980

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Minor losses to gilded surface, else intact and quite excellent.