An 18thC Tibetan Gilt Bronze Buddhist Vitarka Mudra Hand Fragment sub-Fairground-Sideshow & Circus June in 1885 in England

June in 1885 in England saw the Niger River basin becoming a British protectorate and William Ewart Gladstone's Liberal government being defeated in a vote of no confidence with Robert Cecil

There are three screws provided for fixing the knocker to a door

as well as the Royal Academy School in London

whilst there is a scraped line of damage to one flank

An 18thC Tibetan Gilt Bronze Buddhist Vitarka Mudra Hand Fragment sub-Fairground-Sideshow & Circus June in 1885 in EnglandOrigin: Thailand Period: Mid 18thC Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1750 Width: 4. 5 Depth: 2 Height: 1. 75 The beautiful cast bronze hand fragment with traces of gilding, elegantly positioned in the Vitarka Mudra, a gesture symbolising the transmission of Buddhist teachings, the fingers gracefully curved, with the thumb and index finger forming a circle, while the remaining fingers extend outward and the whole surviving from the eighteenth century. The