Skull "kapala" · Nepal · ID: 3037701
sold
EUR 2,400
Description
human skull, facial features and teeth made from silver metal, the lid-like upper part of the skull delicately engraved, a flat receptacle with silver metal coating inside, band decor with small silver metal skulls running around the rim, min. dam., slight traces of abrasion;
such richly decorated skulls served as ceremonial objects for sacrifices in tantric Buddhism.
The object Skull “kapala” with the object ID 3037701 was last part of the auction 78th tribal art auction at October 18, 2014 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 9 achieved a sales price of EUR 2,400.
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