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POINTE DE LANCE RITUELLE EN FER DAMASQUINÉ OR ET ARGENT
TIBET ORIENTAL, DERGÉ, VERS XVIE SIÈCLE

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

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POINTE DE LANCE RITUELLE EN FER DAMASQUINÉ OR ET ARGENT

TIBET ORIENTAL, DERGÉ, VERS XVIE SIÈCLE
Himalayan Art Resources item no. 205002
67 cm (26 3/8 in.) high

Footnotes

A GOLD AND SILVER DAMASCENED IRON RITUAL SPEAR HEAD
EASTERN TIBET, DERGE, CIRCA 16TH CENTURY

藏東 更慶鎮 約十六世紀 鐵鋄金銀矛

This spear (Mdung Rtse) was an implement utilized by oracles, possibly for a ceremony or ritual. The blade has two flat sides with a medial ridge and rounded tip. Gold damascened decorations of flames are finely engraved into the blade. At the bottom of the spear is a circular rimmed base.

Stylistically, the flame motifs on the blades, compare with an example sold in Christie's, New York, 29 September 2020, lot 10 and an example in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (2001.180) and Henss, Buddhist Ritual Art of Tibet, Stuttgart, 2020, p. 217, nos. 272 and 273.

Published:
Deborah Ashencaen and Gennady Leonov, Visions of Perfect Worlds: Buddhist Art from the Himalayas, Spink & Son Ltd., London, 1999 p. 69, no. 39.

Provenance:
Spink & Son Ltd., London, 1999

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