"Large Embossed Copper Box, Nepal, 19th/20th Century"
Newar copperware art in Nepal in the Kathmandu Valley. In the suburbs, a district in Patan perpetuates this ancestral tradition. Note the repetitive patterns of the guardian lions of the temples and the Makaras, this animal from the Indo-Buddhist mythological bestiary. End of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century