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Unusual Thogchag :
A pair of bronze "statue earrings",
which appear to be about 50 years old.
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Tibetans wear Thogchag as amulets
almost any object in ancient bronze, sometimes even ancient everyday objects become amulets (for example old harness buckles) simply because they are very old and discovered in the ground
near a stupa for example.
*
Here we have a beautiful example of a sacred object diverted from its original use.
These bronze earrings probably adorned a statue of a Buddha (Tsepame? Guru Rinpoche?) which no longer exists
and were recycled into amulets.
*
I offer you here these two "earrings"
as ancient Tibetan curiosities.
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Height: 65 mm.
Width: 22 mm.
Weight (pair): 35 gr.
Unusual Thogchag :
A pair of bronze "statue earrings",
which appear to be about 50 years old.
*
Tibetans wear Thogchag as amulets
almost any object in ancient bronze, sometimes even ancient everyday objects become amulets (for example old harness buckles) simply because they are very old and discovered in the ground
near a stupa for example.
*
Here we have a beautiful example of a sacred object diverted from its original use.
These bronze earrings probably adorned a statue of a Buddha (Tsepame? Guru Rinpoche?) which no longer exists
and were recycled into amulets.
*
I offer you here these two "earrings"
as ancient Tibetan curiosities.
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Height: 65 mm.
Width: 22 mm.
Weight (pair): 35 gr.