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LOT 2180
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]
ProvenancePrivate collection, UK.
LiteratureCf. similar ritual knife in the Cleveland Museum of Art, inventory no. John L. Severance Fund, 1978.9.3.
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