Lot 50
GROUP OF SEVEN TIBETAN BRONZE CEREMONIAL VESSELS
20TH CENTURY
Estimate: £300 - £500
Auction: 12 September 2024 from 10:00 BST
Description
二十世紀 西藏銅法器（一組七件）
comprising: two bronze and iron kartika, each has a single four-pronged vajra extending to a makara with mouth wide open attached a curved iron blade; a four-pronged visvajra; an eight-pronged visvajra; an eight-pronged vajra-kartika; a four-pronged vajra; an eight-pronged and three-facet phurba (7)
Dimensions
kartika: 16.6cm high, 440g and 17cm high, 442g; four-pronged visvajra: 13cm high,215g; eight-pronged visvajra: 7.6cm high, 69g; vajra-kartika: 7.5cm high, 65g; vajra: 9cm high, 63g; purbha: 7.5cm high, 53g
Provenance
Formerly in an anthropologist's collection
