File:Sino-Tibetan, Derge School, Yongle period - Ritual Mace - 1978.9.2 - Cleveland Museum of Art.tif

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Ritual Mace   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Ritual Mace
Description
Ceremonial weaponry was used in tantric rituals to combat obstacles to enlightenment, such as ignorance and uncontrolled passions. In 1407 a high-ranking Tibetan monastic patriarch visited the emperor of the Ming dynasty, known as Yongle. The Yongle emperor presented him with a number of gifts, of which the axe, mace, flaying knife, incense burner (1983.154), and the gilt bronze Virupa (1972.96) appear to have been a part, since the sculpture and the axe bear his identifying inscription in a cartouche. Imperial Chinese workmanship is noted in the lush rendering of the lion heads from which the blades emerge, the calligraphic serpentine forms, and the cloud motifs.
Date 1400
date QS:P571,+1400-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium Iron alloy with gold inlay
Dimensions Overall: 38.5 cm (15 3/16 in.)
institution QS:P195,Q657415
Current location
Indian and South East Asian Art
Accession number
1978.9.2
Place of creation Sino-Tibetan, Derge School, Yongle period (1403-1427)
Credit line John L. Severance Fund
Source/Photographer https://clevelandart.org/art/1978.9.2

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