Fragment of a threshing hammer ·  Nepal · ID: 3037596

Description

heavy wood, middle brown patina, remains of black and red paint, as well as red pigment, massive horseshoe-shaped corpus with bobbin, crowned by an anthropomorphic torso, “tika” (sign of blessing) on the forehead, carved with the image of the Hindu god “ganesha” in bas-relief and Devanagari inscription, slightly dam., rep. (at the frontside of the horseshoe-shaped corpus a piece of wood reinserted)

The object Fragment of a threshing hammer with the object ID 3037596 was last part of the auction 78th tribal art auction at October 18, 2014 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 10.

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