An antique tsakli painting, Tibet, 19th Century or earlier depicting an offering torma or sacrificial arrangement used in pacifying and increasing rituals or to eliminate hindrances. Of simple shape, it stands surrounded by a group of 'flowers' which represent the 5 aggregates of form, feeling, perception, motivation and consciousness, all within a red rectangular offering dish above a circular red throne, indicating its possible use as an offering to a wrathful deity. It is decorated with flat, butter-sculpture discs with bursts of white flame which ascend vertically . The disc at the tip of this torma protrudes from an extension of the torma (nada) which is then surmounted by the 3 jewels beneath a moon disc and 2 suns.
Such torma, despite the effort that went into forming them are usually broken up and scattered following the ceremony.
6 lines of text and 1 syllable in Tibetan to the reverse. 9.3 x 12.3cm