Details
The iron kapala damascened with silver with a crosshatch pattern, with a short inscription in Tibetan on the underside, covered with a fitted lid damascened with a scrolling lotus motif, below a raised dome in openwork surmounted by a half-vajra, all supported on a lotus-form base with three skull appliques
534in. (14.6 cm.) high
Provenance
Spink & Son, Ltd., London, 10 May 1983.
The James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection, Chicago, acquired prior to 1990.
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