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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