TIBETAN KAPALA
Lot 329
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Mounting: metal, red stone
8 x 18 x 15 cm
The human skull caps, mounted in silver to form a cup known as a kapala (or ‘skull’ in Sanskrit), were used in Hindu and Buddhist tantric rituals
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