206. HIMALAYA Hayagriva Bone, red lacquered back. Large plaque in carved bone of Hayagriva and her goddess, trampling two demons in a flaming mandorla in a flaming mandorla. The angry protesting deity, first present in the Hindu pantheon, then introduced into Tibetan Buddhism, is here recognizable recognizable by the horse's head present in his headdress. End of the 19th century. H : 32,5 cm - W : 23 cm - D : 1 cm.