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67A - Tibetan gilt bronze depicting Namkha Yeshe lama 18-19th c Tibet
2500-3500 €
A Tibetan gilt bronze depicting Namkha Yeshe (Heavenly Wisdom) wearing on his hat glasses for meditation and snow blindness. Height : 12.4 cm.
These glasses were made of yak hair, hence the lattices on the front of them.
A 16th-century lama in the Rubin Museum's collection also wears these glasses.
Translation of the script in the pictures
18-19th c
Tibet
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