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346 - A Tibetan parcel-gilt iron five-pronged vajra
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A Tibetan parcel-gilt iron five-pronged vajra 17th century Finely cast, with two borders of wrathful faces either side of the grip, beneath a lotus petal border, 20cm long.(Import Duty Charged on the Hammer Price)落槌價徵收進口關稅 十七世紀 鉄局部描金五股金剛杵 Himalayan art resources item no. 8742. Jeff Watt notes that, from an Indian or Tibetan ritual textual tradition, vajra sceptres should not be cast with faces or animals. The meaning or origins of these faces and animals on sceptres remain a mystery, but he postulates that they may belong to a group originating in the Tangut Kingdom (Xixia) at the border between China and Tibet, in modern-day Gansu province.
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