Tibetan Gilt Bronze Ritual Kartika Knife

20TH CENTURY A.D.

13 1/8 in. (1.52 kg, 33.4 cm).

With swept lunate blade connected to the baluster handle by the gaping jaws of a serpent; four-arched vajra finial. [No Reserve]

Provenance

Private collection, UK.

Literature

Cf. similar ritual knife in the Cleveland Museum of Art, inventory no. John L. Severance Fund, 1978.9.3.

CONDITION

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LOT 2180