Lovely Small Tibetan Tsalki Watercolors - Sold Individually beautiful carved spoon in poor shape at this

in poor shape at this point

but making one wonder a bit about the context in which this was made and hung

One often comes across bowls of mixed stone fruit

11 3/4" l x 5 1/8" w x 2 1/4" t

where heads and figures and chickens and more commingle

Lovely Small Tibetan Tsalki Watercolors - Sold Individually beautiful carved spoon in poor shape at thisThough not at all my expertise, I do know that these small watercolors on heavyweight handmade paper are Tibetan Tsakli, or initiation cards produced as thematic groups or sets, they are traditionally used in initiations of young monks or during ceremonies as a visualization aid to invoke a deity or divinity or simply as a representation of the object of the offering ritual. On the reverse side of each is a handwritten inscription, I believe noting