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Lot 10
A GILT-DAMASCENED IRON SPEAR HEAD
TIBET, 17TH CENTURY
Closed29 September 2020
Price Realised
USD 27,500
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Specialist note
Compare the present lot with an example in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (acc. no. 2001.180), illustrated by D. LaRocca in Warriors of the Himalayas: Rediscovering the Arms and Armor of Tibet, New Haven, 2006, no. 77; both the present example and the Metropolitan spear are similarly decorated on the blade with flame motifs.