Antique Tibetan Carved Yak Bone, Coral Cabochon & Silver Snuff Box
Code: 15503
£265.00 Approx $331.25, €309.58, £265
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For sale is an outstandingly beautiful Antique 1880s Qing Dynasty Tibetan Polished & Hand Carved Domestic Yak (Bos grunniens) Bone, Blue and Red Coral Cabochon & Intricately detailed Silver Decorated Snuff Box/ Ritual sensory perfume/ scent holder. This scent bottle is beautifully decorated in low grade silver, in Tibetan patterns along the sides of the top and bottom of scent this scent bottle. This is in excellent condition, and has its original spoon and carved yak bone stopper.
Among the major rites of Tibetan tantric Buddhism are the offerings of the five senses presented to various religious masters and peaceful deities. They express the desire to please the gods and symbolise the renunciation on the part of the donor of sensory pleasures. The senses can be personified by five goddesses. Perfume (or gandha in Sanskrit) is personified by Gandha, a goddess who represents the sense of smell. The colour of her skin varies, but her attribute is a conch containing perfumes. The goddess Dhupã personifies incense, or dhup, and belongs to a group of four goddesses embodying the ritual offerings of flowers, incense, light and perfume. Her attribute is the incense burner and her skin colour is usually dark. Gandha also belongs to this group. Dhüpa and Gandha, who can have either one face and two hands, or three faces and six hands, appear in different types of mandala.
The measurements are as followed;
Height; 53.5mm
Length: 11.6mm
Depth: 14.8mm
Weight: 8.60 grams
Length of the spoon not including stopper: 31.1mm
This will be sent via special delivery and dispatched within two working days.
Sellers reference J22
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