Lot Essay
A similar headdress was sold with Christie's, New York, 17 September 1998 (lot 94).
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Details
A Ladakh ritual headdress, PERAK
Shaped like a hat with an arched flap, with an overall application of coral, turquoise, wood, mother-of-pearl and various beads in agate, cornelian and obsedian, around a silver roundel inset with turqoise, the flap terminating with an openworked silver medallion
30.4 cm. wide
Shaped like a hat with an arched flap, with an overall application of coral, turquoise, wood, mother-of-pearl and various beads in agate, cornelian and obsedian, around a silver roundel inset with turqoise, the flap terminating with an openworked silver medallion
30.4 cm. wide
Special notice
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