Figure in hollow-cast bronze of a seated cat, a votive offering to the goddess Bast: Ancient Egyptian, Lower Egypt, Lower Egypt, Tell Basta, Late or Ptolemaic period, c. 664 - 30 BC

Votive offering of clay, sold by lamas for sickness, everyday ritual: Tibet

Votive offering of clay, sold by lamas for sickness, everyday ritual: Tibet

Votive offering of moulded white clay, a tablet with a god in ecstasy, everyday ritual: Kashmir, Ladakh

Votive offering of moulded white clay, an oval with Medicine Buddha depicted, everyday ritual: Kashmir, Ladakh

Votive offering of moulded white clay, an oval with a seated god, everyday ritual: Kashmir, Ladakh

Votive offering of white clay, in form of a tablet pressed in a mould, showing a seated god, everyday ritual: Kashmir, Ladakh

Votive offering of clay, moulded with a Buddhist deity in relief on the front and a flat back, everyday ritual: India, Ladakh, Likir, Tibetan, early 20th century

Votive offering of clay, with a flat back, and a front moulded with a Buddhist deity in relief, everyday ritual: India, Ladakh, Likir, Tibetan

Votive offering of clay, with a flat back, and a front moulded with a Buddhist deity in relief, everyday ritual: India, Ladakh, Likir, Tibetan

Votive offering of clay, with a flat back, and a front moulded with Buddha in Bhumisparsha mudra (earth-touching) pose in relief, everyday ritual: India, Ladakh, Likir, Tibetan

Votive offering of clay, with a flat back, and a front moulded with Buddha in Bhumisparsha mudra (earth-touching) pose in relief, everyday ritual: India, Ladakh, Likir, Tibetan

Votive offering of clay, with a flat back, and a front moulded with a four-armed Bodhisattva, possibly Avalokiteshvara, in relief, everyday ritual: India, Ladakh, Likir, Tibetan

Votive offering of clay, with a flat back, and a front moulded with a Buddhist deity in relief, everyday ritual: India, Ladakh, Likir, Tibetan

Votive offering of clay, with a flat back, and a front moulded with a Buddhist deity in relief, everyday ritual: India, Ladakh, Likir, Tibetan

Votive offering of clay, with a flat back, and a front moulded with a Buddhist deity in relief, everyday ritual: India, Ladakh, Likir, Tibetan