Yellow Jambhala is the best-known wealth deity in Tibetan Buddhism, a golden pot-bellied figure seated in ease. His right hand holds a jewel-spitting mongoose, the animal said to shower the gems that relieve poverty, while his left cradles a skull cup of nectar, signs of the generosity that attracts prosperity.

Lineages trace him to the yaksha king Kubera, reframed in Buddhism as a guardian of the northern direction and protector of practitioners. Artists paint his rounded form in luminous yellow mineral pigment with gold brocade robes, and each piece here is edged in brocade, ready to hang.