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A Tibetan butter lamp, silvered copper, 20th Century.

Estimate
4 000 - 6 000 SEK
376 - 564 EUR
424 - 636 USD
Hammer price
Unsold
Purchasing info
For condition report contact specialist
Cecilia Nordström
Stockholm
Cecilia Nordström
Senior specialist Asian Ceramics and Works of Art, European Ceramics and Glass
+46 (0)739 40 08 02
A Tibetan butter lamp, silvered copper, 20th Century.

Chalice shaped. For jak butter oil. Height 13 cm. Weight 214 gram.

Wear.

Exhibitions

Their form is reminiscent of the Christian chalice and they would have been used on an altar, filled to the brim with yak butter oil and with a single wick floating in each.