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A GILT COPPER ALLOY PURBHA For another purbha of the same form, see one attributed to Derge,
MONGOLIA, 17TH/18TH CENTURY eastern Tibet, held in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Pal, Lamaist
Himalayan Art Resources item no.61914 Art, Boston, 1969, pl.67). A third is in the Jacques Marchais Museum
11 in. (28 cm) long (Lipton, Treasures of Tibetan Art, New York, 1996, p.219, no.115).
Other examples with a narrow knop-grip are published on Himalayan
$35,000 - 45,000 Art Resources (10457, 21572, and 10779).
蒙古 十七/十八世紀 銅鎏金普巴杵 Published and Exhibited
Hollywood Galleries, Buddha Enlightened, Hong Kong, 2013, p.25,
This ritual implement’s fine detail, rich gilding, tripartite blade, and finial no.8.
are typical of the luxurious Buddhist bronze casting of the Zanabazar
school of Mongolia. Compare each face’s three-tipped flaming eye Provenance
brows with a Vajrabhairava in the Zanabazar Museum of Fine Arts Acquired in Hong Kong, 1993
(HAR 50308).
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