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LOT 2135
Tibetan Banded Agate and Glass Bead Necklace
20TH CENTURY A.D.
27 1/2 in. (63 grams, 70 cm long).
Composed of graduated agate and glass beads, including five fusiform agate beads with added Zi patterns; screw clasp. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceLondon collection since the 1980s.
Property of a Canadian family.
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Written in Pali in Burmese square script on gilded, lacquered and numbered palm leaves; each leaf is double-sided with the exception of one cover leaf which displays interlaced geometric panels populated with female figures, dragonesques and birds to one face; accompanied by an ornately decorated sword-shaped 'pointer', also gilded, possibly not belonging. 1.15 kg total, 29-56.5 cm
London collection since the 1980s. Property of a Canadian family.
Kammavaca is a Pali term describing an assemblage of passages from the Tipitaka (the Theravada Buddhist canon) relating to ordination, the bestowing of robes and other rituals of monastic life. The texts typically contain religious instructions for monks. The piercings in the leaves are functional; each leaf was placed over a skewer (likely bamboo) when read.
