Traditional Tibetan set for « taking care « of ears, nose, nails and hair…. L:8,5c
Nepalese Ghee Butter Tea or Chaang wooden Bottle with brass mount with Top connected with Brass chain, 8" high, the condition is new.
Vintage Tibetan brass and glass pin representing standing Boddhisattva Amitabha. Nice work, glass wonderfully imitating turquoise, in excellent condition. Height 1.6 inches.
Tsakali (miniature painting for meditation) ; 8,5 x 8 cms
Nepanese Wooden Ghee Butter Tea Bottle or Chaang with Brass mounted with top attached with brass chain, 6" high, the condition is new.
Bhutanese colorful Bamboo Bangchung covered Food Basket, 8 3/4" diameter, 3 1/2" high include top cover, hand woven colored Bamboo, yak skin pull or handle is attached to bottom basket on the side to pull open, usually this type of baskets closes very tight to store food, leather handle on the side is helpful to open top and bottom apart. The condition is good.
Two(2) Tibetan Himalayan Glass Zi shape Beads, 37mm x 14mm (1 1/2" x 1/2").
Tibetan Himalayan Dzi glass bead, 42mm x 7mm(1 3/4" long x 1/2" diameter).
This type of strongly abstract and stylized sculpture is supposed to be an ex-voto offered during the worship of the Indian deity Mauli Mariai. However the role and the meaning of these statues remain poorly documented. H22 cm
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Very harmonius Protector in the sitting position with the hands in the namaste gesture, important weather eroded patina; remaining encrusted white pigment (seto mato). Hard wood, H 32 cm
These mall sized ghurras are used to churn small quantity of milk when in summer pasture with sheep, the carving shows 4 separated poles joined with a rope knot and surmounted by 4 milk pots supporting a ram , very nice black patina with important signs of used, at least from mid 20th, from Rukkum district . H 20 cm, wide 3 to 8 cm, thick 1 to 3 cm.
3 ancestor faces on top and very nice Makara at least early 20th, H22 cm
This pair of masks show a couple (man and woman).
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Sizes: for the male H 30.5x 27 cm, female 30 x 23 cm,
Mask figuring a monkey deity with a crown. Hard red wood which has been washed as often observed with these masks used for winter festivals in Himachal Praddesh remote villages, circa first half of the 20th. H32 cm
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Black patina mask with an elongated slightly concave shape, the design is minimal with however particular attention to the mouth. Likely a wild mask from Humla area. Good age at least early to mid 20th. Very hard Hardwood, H 36cm
The protector is in standing position, hard wood, few recent wounds but overall good condition considering its age and long term exposure to water erosion. H 55cm
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Old Himalayan mask used during Phagli festival in some remote valley of Himachal Pradesh (North India). Superb patina and obvious signs of important use and superb patina , at least circa fist mid of the 20th, possible early 20th
Hard wood , H 32 cm
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A fine and old ghurra, the top figures a house , whereas the middle is figures an interlace of rope, the rotating hole shows important signs of use; H 22 cm
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