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PROPERTY FROM AN ANONYMOUS COLLECTION
A ceremonial sword within a silver, gilt, and inlaid scabbard
TIBET, 18TH CENTURY
細節
A ceremonial sword within a silver, gilt, and inlaid scabbard
Tibet, 18th century
The sword with double-edged blade affixed to a gilt sword guard decorated with scrolling lions and a hilt incised with birds and inlaid with coral and turquoise; the scabbard with loop rings supported by a gilt makara, gilt fittings with fanciful dragons and inlaid with coral and hardstones, the sides with lightly incised foliate detail in silver
31½ in. (80 cm.) long
Tibet, 18th century
The sword with double-edged blade affixed to a gilt sword guard decorated with scrolling lions and a hilt incised with birds and inlaid with coral and turquoise; the scabbard with loop rings supported by a gilt makara, gilt fittings with fanciful dragons and inlaid with coral and hardstones, the sides with lightly incised foliate detail in silver
31½ in. (80 cm.) long
來源
The James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection, Chicago, before 1997
Sotheby's New York, 22 March 2001, lot 36
Sotheby's New York, 22 March 2001, lot 36
出版
P. Pal, A Collecting Odyssey, 1997, p. 243, cat. no. 333