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Lot 46

A silver mounted chod kapala
Tibet, 17th-19th century

18 September 2013, 10:00 EDT
New York

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A silver mounted chod kapala

Tibet, 17th-19th century
With an embossed silver vajra to the interior, the exterior outer rim with scalloped foliate panels worked with single grinning skulls at the sides and visvavajras at the ends.
2 1/4 x 5 3/4 x 7 in. (5.7 x 14.6 x 18 cm)

Footnotes

'Scented' skullcups are seen in the hands of many wrathful deities. During tantric meditations these skullcups are filled with an alcoholic ritual substance visualized by monks as containing 5 corpses and 5 bodily excretions. The meditation transforms this into ambrosia, parallel to the transformation of the five delusions into the five wisdoms, and the five poisons into the five tathagathas.

Provenance:
Private Collection, Los Angeles
Acquired from Leonard Loeb, New York, 1971

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