A Tibetan butter lamp, silvered copper, 20th Century.
Unsold
Estimate
4 000 - 6 000 SEK
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.
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Stockholm
Cecilia Nordström
Senior specialist Asian Ceramics and Works of Art, European Ceramics and Glass