TIBET, XVIIÈME SIÈCLE

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TRIDENT CÉRÉMONIAL EN FER PARTIELLEMENT DORÉ ET ARGENTÉ
TIBET, XVIIÈME SIÈCLE
Ses cinq extrémités flammées sont délicatement ajourées en formant des volutes et émergent d'un crâne humain doré menaçant aux canines acérées. Elles sont ornées sur chaque face de flammes stylisées à l'or. Deux ornements en forme de flamme sont suspendus de part et d'autre du crâne central qui était autrefois adossé à un autre crâne identique où est désormais incisée la lettre tibétaine ga.
Hauteur : 49,6 cm. (19 1⁄2 in.), socle en bois

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A FIVE-PRONGED GILT AND SILVER-INLAID IRON CEREMONIAL TRIDENT
TIBET, 17TH CENTURY

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Lot Essay

Iron tridents are often placed on the roofs of Tibetan temples as protective devices against adverse forces and lightning. See a very similar Tibetan spearhead sold in our New York rooms, 23 September 2004, lot 89, which was exhibited in London, Spink and Son, Ltd., Body, Speech and Mind, Buddhist Art from Tibet, Nepal, Mongolia and China, cat. no. 38, December 1998, and Madrid, Fundación "La Caixa", Monasterios y lamas del Tibet, cat. no. 7, November 2000 - January 2001. Also compare to a similar Tibetan trident preserved in the Musée Guimet, Paris.

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