Eastern Tibet, 19th century Distemper on cloth; the first, of green Tara, with the deity seated in lalitasana on a lotus throne issuing from a pond, each hand holding a lotus stem, 37cm (14 1/2in) x 26cm (10 1/4in); the second, depicting a semi-wrathful deity, red in appearance, with three eyes, also seated in lalitasana on a lotus throne issuing from a pond, holding a staff in one hand and a skull cup in the other, all under the Sun and the Moon in the sky and Atisha and Padmasambhava seated on floating clouds at respectively the top right and top left corner edges, inscribed in red to the reverse, together with a hand-written 'guide' to the iconography, 29cm (11 3/8in) x 21cm (8 1/4in).(2).