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COURONNE RITUELLE POLYCHROME AVEC FLEURON EN FORME DE VAJRA EN ALLIAGE DE CUIVRE DORÉ ET COTON TRESSÉ MONGOLIE, XIXE SIÈCLE image 1
COURONNE RITUELLE POLYCHROME AVEC FLEURON EN FORME DE VAJRA EN ALLIAGE DE CUIVRE DORÉ ET COTON TRESSÉ MONGOLIE, XIXE SIÈCLE image 2
Lot 120

COURONNE RITUELLE POLYCHROME AVEC FLEURON EN FORME DE VAJRA EN ALLIAGE DE CUIVRE DORÉ ET COTON TRESSÉ
MONGOLIE, XIXE SIÈCLE

15 December 2022, 14:00 CET
Paris, Avenue Hoche

€3,000 - €5,000

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COURONNE RITUELLE POLYCHROME AVEC FLEURON EN FORME DE VAJRA EN ALLIAGE DE CUIVRE DORÉ ET COTON TRESSÉ

MONGOLIE, XIXE SIÈCLE
Himalayan Art Resources item no. 205076
The crown: 31 cm (12 1/4 in.) high

Footnotes

A POLYCHROMED RITUAL CROWN WITH BRAIDED COTTON AND GILT COPPER ALLOY VAJRA FINIAL
MONGOLIA, 19TH CENTURY

蒙古 十九世紀 彩繪銅鎏金金剛杵式鈕法冠

This quatre-lobed crown depicts five wrathful heads, each enclosed within a golden, flaming roundel. Obscuring the eyes is a braided fringe (tomra) designed to protect spirits from the powerful gaze of the chödpa (the person performing the chöd).

Compare with a closely related tathagata crown in the Ethnographic Museum of Zurich (Henss Buddhist Ritual Art of Tibet, p. 411, no. 563) that also retains an imitation coiffure and finial.

Provenance:
Ashencaen and Leonov, London, 2000s

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