An iron (meteot ?) and bronze Phurbu

Description:

Tibet, 18th/19th cent.
L. 25,7 cm
Important South German private collection, collected from 1950 onwards until 2004
Cf. an almost identical phurbu in the collections of the State Museum of Oriental Art Moscow, published Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, State Museum of Oriental Art, printed by decision of the Editorial and Publishing Council, Himalayan Mosaic: Cultural Diversity and Unity, exhibition at the State Museum of Oriental Art, 19 December 2013 - February 2014, I.I. Sheptunova, no. 101, Tibet, 19th century, inv. Nº 17452 | Minor traces of age