A PARCEL-GILT COPPER SHRINE DEPICTING A TANTRIC DEITY Tibet, 19th ct. H. 8 cm The horse-shoe plaque is embossed with a tantric deity embracing his consort, standing in alidhasana on a lotus-base with both hands holding a skull-cup, wearing animal-skin skirt, scarf, his face displaying a wrathful expression demonstrating bulging eyes below bushy eyebrows, open mouth with fangs and double row of teeth, earring set with a bead, his flaming hairdo secured with a diadem decorated with skulls, his consort holding in her left hand a skull-cup and one ear-ornament set with a bead, the reverse with the mantras aum ah hum. From a private collection in southern Germany, collected in the 1970 Minor wear