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A Tibetan ritual silver and bronze water flask, 'Chab Bum',…
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Sydney
Date:
15-Nov-2018
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A Tibetan ritual silver and bronze water flask, 'Chab Bum', with a kesi 'dragon' cover, 17th/18th century, the bronze flask is mounted with a silver stopper, suspended from an amber bead with woven ribbons, with a kesi cover re-tailored from fragments of a Chinese imperial yardage, bronze flask 3.5 cm long, kesi cover 26 x 27 cm. Provenance: R&V Tregaskis Oriental Art (label). Alex Biancardi Collection since November 2009. Mossgreen, Sydney, 12 December 2016, lot 110. Numerous documented examples attest to Chinese patronage of the lamas, who were enormously influential, both culturally and politically as early as the Tang dynasty. Emperors and other wealthy Chinese made gifts of luxurious textiles to Tibetan clergy and monasteries. It is estimated that the bulk of silk from Central Asia and China brought into Tibet from 10th to 20th century was all used in a religious context. This might explain the mystery behind the marriage of a Tibetan religious object and a fragment from Chinese imperial yardage in this lot. This history of religious life and textiles is documented in the exhibition catalogue Celestial Silks: Chinese Religious & Court Textiles, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2004, p. 22
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