Tibet - Important Kartika handle in finely chiseled bronze, 18th century

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Tibet - Important manche de Kartika en bronze finement ciselé, XVIIIème siècle 2

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Tibet
18th century
Kartika Sleeve

Gilded bronze
18 x 8 cm excluding base
Former French private collection

Appraised by Cabinet Portier

Old ceremonial cleaver handle, or Kartika (trigug in Tibetan) in finely chiseled bronze. The set is engraved on both sides, the hilt featuring a terrifying-looking kâla: wide-open eyes staring
straight ahead and topped by bushy eyebrows, dilated nostrils in a broad snout, open mouth and fangs showing between his two hands . It evolves in a register of clouds, the solar and lunar symbols
placed above it. The handle has a decoration of trilobed foliage surmounted by a half-sphere decorated with lotus petals and a border of gadroons, the upper part ending in a half vajra. The reverse
is similar, the guard being differentiated by a tangle of clouds.

The trigug in Vajrayana Buddhism is a ceremonial cleaver used in tantric ceremonies. It is used to flay bodies and is also the attribute of wrathful Dakinis, symbolizing the tearing to pieces of all
negative and materialistic actions with the Blade of Wisdom.

Dimensions :
- Height : 18 cm hors socle cm
- Width : 8 cm hors socle cm

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Expertized by Cabinet Thierry Portier : Expertise and counsel office specialized in Asian arts. Its mission is to identify, authenticate and value art objets from Eastern Asia. Thierry Portier is Expert at The Court of Appeal of Paris, of the plenary assembly of insurance compagnies and with domains (selling of the state's properties) and of the "Crédit Municipal de Paris" (public credit establishement). Member of The Trade Union of Professional Experts in Art Work ("Syndicat des Experts Professionnels en Œuvres d'Art"), of the French-Japanese Association, the foundation Urasanke Konishiwan, and the foundation for the teaching of the tea ceremony.

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Tibet - Important Kartika handle in finely chiseled bronze, 18th century

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