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TROMPETTE CONQUE À MONTURE D'ARGENT REPOUSSÉ
TIBET OU MONGOLIE, XIXE SIÈCLE

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

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TROMPETTE CONQUE À MONTURE D'ARGENT REPOUSSÉ

TIBET OU MONGOLIE, XIXE SIÈCLE
Inset with turquoise
Himalayan Art Resources item no. 205005
46 cm (18 1/8 in.) high

Footnotes

A SILVER REPOUSSÉ MOUNTED CONCH TRUMPET
TIBET OR MONGOLIA, 19TH CENTURY

西藏或蒙古 十九世紀 銀錘揲鑲翅白法螺

Published:
Ramon Prats, et.al., Monasterios y lamas del Tibet, Madrid, Fundación "La Caixa", 2000, p.121, no.63.

Exhibited:
Monasterios y lamas del Tibet, Fundación "La Caixa", Madrid, November 2000-January 2001.

Often used in ceremonies as a means of calling monks to prayer, the reverberating tones of the conch symbolize the true word of the Buddha. This heavily ornamented trumpet features a dragon motif surrounded by emblems of the eight auspicious symbols. Compare with another silver repoussé conch bearing a similar dragon motif illustrated in Henss, Buddhist Ritual Art of Tibet, Stuttgart, 2020, fig. 375.

Provenance:
Spink & Son Ltd, London, 1990s

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