Antique Tibetan Large Painted Wooden Panel Scandinavian folk art The surface has worn soft

The surface has worn soft and smooth

slightly lumpy

with a nice mellow patina to the old gold paint

Apart from a short period in Ohio

with black for his beady eyes and red for the inside of his giant mouth

Antique Tibetan Large Painted Wooden Panel Scandinavian folk art The surface has worn softNot my expertise, but I found this old Tibetan painted panel, I assume once a door on a piece of furniture, way too beautiful not to bring home with me how to resist those gold painted flames? My knowledge is very limited, but certainly it is a lotus flower at bottom center, and I assume it is the path to enlightenment progression to nirvana being symbolically represented (with the six tethered forms representing the six perfections?) Gorgeous color,