INDIAN ART

A fine Tanjore copper lota or water vessel, inlaid in silver and a variety of other metals with the atavars of the Hindu deity Vishnu, 19th century. 

 Note:  For a very similar example in the V & A Museum see Birdwood, G.C.M., The Arts of India, The Reprint Press, 1986, plate 14 

A Hindu bronze breastplate worn by a male dancer in the Theyyam ceremony

Fragmentary Buddhistic carved schist, figure, circa AD 1st-5th century, 12cm high

A 19th-century Hindu alabaster carving of the deity Parvati, riding a tiger, 30cm long

A 19th-century bronze Buddhistic figure holding a lotus flower, about 24cm high