Three fine gilt-bronze Buddhist altar emblems

Description:

Tibet, 19th cent.
H. 15 - 15,5 cm
Kalasha, Cakra and Shanka executed over a lotus as a symbol. Old inventory numbers of the Umlauff Collection, which was founded in 1869 by Johann Friedrich Gustav Umlauff (1833-1889), on the inside of the base. Here the inventory numbers 72351, 72352 and 72357 are inscribed next to Umlauff. This Hamburg trading house bought several hundred Tibetan objects in 1925, a large part of which were collected in Sichuan/East Tibet by the explorer and collector Walther Stötzner in the years 1913-1914.
Old and important German private collection, collected since the 1950s until 2007, lot nos. 24 to 26 with the note formerly Umlauff collection, ex-collection Macht, München - minimally dam., traces of age