Lot Essay
Iron tridents are often placed on the roofs of Tibetan temples as protective devices against adverse forces and lightning.
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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTION
A Five-Pronged Gold Damascened Iron Spearhead
TIBET, 17TH/18TH CENTURY
Details
A Five-Pronged Gold Damascened Iron Spearhead
Tibet, 17th/18th Century
With five blade-shaped prongs issuing from a gold damascened skull, the tips surrounded by openwork gilt scrolls and with pendant leaf-shaped ornaments
19¾ in. (50 cm.) high
Tibet, 17th/18th Century
With five blade-shaped prongs issuing from a gold damascened skull, the tips surrounded by openwork gilt scrolls and with pendant leaf-shaped ornaments
19¾ in. (50 cm.) high
Literature
Exhibition catalogue, Body, Speech and Mind, Buddhist Art from Tibet, Nepal, Mongolia and China, Spink and Son, Ltd., 1998, p. 72f., cat. no. 38.
Exhibition catalogue, Monasterios y lamas del Tibet, Madrid, Fundación "La Caixa", 2000, p. 98, cat. no. 7 and ill. on back cover.
Exhibition catalogue, Monasterios y lamas del Tibet, Madrid, Fundación "La Caixa", 2000, p. 98, cat. no. 7 and ill. on back cover.
Exhibited
London, Spink and Son, Ltd., Body, Speech and Mind, Buddhist Art from Tibet, Nepal, Mongolia and China, cat. no. 38, December 1998.
Madrid, Fundación "La Caixa", Monasterios y lamas del Tibet, cat. no. 7, November 2000 - January 2001.
Madrid, Fundación "La Caixa", Monasterios y lamas del Tibet, cat. no. 7, November 2000 - January 2001.