Lovely Small Tibetan Tsalki Watercolors - Sold Individually beautiful carved spoon One often comes across bowls

One often comes across bowls of mixed stone fruit

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

it's an old stair baluster into which little faces were carved on both sides of one end

then in the 50s moved to Paris

Lovely Small Tibetan Tsalki Watercolors - Sold Individually beautiful carved spoon One often comes across bowlsThough 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