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

Estimate
4 000 - 6 000 SEK
353 - 530 EUR
375 - 562 USD
Hammer price
Unsold
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Cecilia Nordström
Stockholm
Cecilia Nordström
Head 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.