THREE BRONZE AND COPPER RITUAL CHOPPERS, KARTTRIKA

Description:

Tibet, early 20th cent.
L. 16 - 28 cm
All three with a half-vajra shaped top section, two continuing into a lower ornament cast as a gui-dragon amidst clouds, the third chopper with a central section cast in the form of various mythical animals and birds and all three terminating into an iron blade.
Old German private collection, assembled between 1970 and 2000 - Minor traces of age