Lot number 378 - Auction 143
EINE GHANTA AUS BRONZE

A BRONZE GHANTA China (Tibet), 19th century Bronze. H. 18 cm. The handle of the bell consists of the head of Vairocana and half a vajra. The body of the bell, cast in shiny silver bronze, is decorated in relief with monster masks, a vajra band and an eight-petalled lotus containing the seed syllables of four of the five transcendent Buddhas and their partners. With traces of use and age, partially damaged.