Vasudeva, India, Kashmir, 9th century. Brass with silver inlay. Height: 11⅜ in (29 cm) Visitors to Carlton Rochell’s gallery in the Fuller Building, New York, were fascinated by the exhibition of twenty-five works from Tibet, Nepal and India from a European...

A Tibetan gilt-bronze figure of Vajradhara, 17th century. Seated in vajrasana on a separate cast lotus base, both hands crossed in front of the breast and holding vajra and ghanta, wearing pleated dhoti, scarf, bejewelled and partly set with semi-precious...