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THB19th C. Tibetan Bone & Brass Kangling & Ram Kapala
Lot 47
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Artemis Gallery
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Central Asia, Tibet, ca. 19th to early 20th century CE. An intriguing and macabre pair of Tantric Buddhist religious ritual items: a kapala made from a ram's skull adorned with brass, tin appliques, and glass beads, and a human bone with brass fittings for use as a kangling. The kangling is a hollowed tibia, with two openings on the knobbed joint, and the mouthpiece at the other end, surrounded with a brass fitting. A brass band, with a bezel containing a blue glass bead, decorates the joint area and provides a suspension loop. The kapala skull is decorated with brass appliques and glass beads in red and green. The appliques are hammered into sheets with repousse designs of human skulls and other patterns, then attached to the bone with black pitch. Note the golden ears that have been attached to the sides! Size kangling: 13" L x 2.5" W (33 cm x 6.4 cm); kapala skull: 11" L x 13.5" W (27.9 cm x 34.3 cm)
Kangling literally translated as a "leg flute," is a trumpet carved from a human bone, designed to remind us of our transient physical existence. The Kapala and other ceremonial objects made from bone are part of the Tantric practice of reflection upon decay and the corruption of the corporeal form, as well as the desire to destroy the duality of attractiveness versus repulsion.
Provenance: ex-Stein collection, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA, acquired prior to 2010
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#164795Missing 3 beads within bezels on kangling bone. Surface pitting and ossification on knob joint area, the rest is polished smooth. Still playable. Ram kapala has surface patina to metal areas. Tearing and loosening to metal sheets. Missing some sheets on horns and skull. Loss to bone above eye sockets. Losses to lower jaw teeth. Lower jaw is loosening from upper skull.Condition
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