AN IVORY PLAQUE DEPICTING DURGA, NEPAL, ca. 18th ct., the square plaque depicting Durga standing in heroic posture on the lion and the demon rising from the bull's body, her eighteen arms radiating around her body, wearing sari, garland of skulls, bejewelled, her face displaying a severe expression, her hair secured with a tiara decorated with a pair of flags, flanked by a pair of attendants and the upper corners with each a vidyadhara, the reverse inscribed with mantras in Tibetan dBu.can script - Property from the Asian and Himalayan art collection of the brothers Kienzle, Swabia, assembled between 1965 and 1986 - Very slightly chipped Feine Schnitzerei der Durga aus Elfenbein mit Inschrift NEPAL, ca. 18.Jh. 7,3 x 7 cm Provenienz: Aus der Tibet- und Asien-Sammlung der Gebrüder Kienzle, Schwaben, zwischen 1965 und 1986 gesammelt - Minim. bestoßen