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Lot 31
AN EARLY GILT-COPPER MOUNTED KAPALA
Estimated Value:
2.000 € - 3.000 €
Result:
incl. Premium and VAT
Description:
Tibet or Nepal, ca. 16th c.L. 20 cm
The inside is coloured with pigments. The rim of the calotte has a forged, fire-gilt copper border. Three stylised skulls and the head of a crowned bodhisattva are placed on the upper edge of the rim. Such sacrificial vessels have a highly spiritual and magical significance, and should be treated with great respec. Skull calotte. Copper, fire-gilt.
German private collection, acquired 15.11. 1989 for DM 690.- at Jones Antiques, Breuninger Stuttgart (invoice preserved)
Cf. Robert Beer, Die Symbole des Tibetischen Buddhismus, Diederichs Gelbe Reihe, Kreuzlingen/München, 2003: 161ff - Very minor restoration
