Details
The grip decorated with four large coral beads terminating into a triangular shaped lapis lazuli point, the top section with broad rim set with nine lapis lazuli beads surmounted by two heads of animals and a wrathful face, the latter topped by a finial set with small coral beads.
1214 in. (31.1 cm.) high
Provenance
Christie's Amsterdam, 7 May 2002, lot 560.
Acquired by Ann Getty from the above.
Literature
H.E. Kreijger, Godenbeelden uit Tibet: Lamaistische kunst uit Nederlands particulier bezit, SDU Uitgeverij, Den Haag, 1989, p. 120.
Exhibited
Museum voor Volkenkunde, Rotterdam, Goden en Goeroes, 17 June-28 November 1989.
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