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| Keywords: Tibetan - Phurbu-cum-chopper - Walters 511448 - View A.jpg This unique and exquisitely crafted ritual object combines the Tibetan dagger with the curved chopper Animating the dagger is the power of the three deities whose faces one with a horse's head above it appear at the top they destroy ignorance desire and hatred The chopper which has the form of a butcher's flaying knife cuts through ignorance and evil tendencies The section opposite the chopper has the shape of a vajra thunderbolt century 15 gilded copper alloy cm 21 41 6 accession number 51 1448 31775 Rudi Rudolph New York City date and mode of acquisition unknown John and Berthe Ford Baltimore 1969 by purchase Walters Art Museum John Berthe Ford 2007 Desire and Devotion Art from India Nepal and Tibet in the John and Berthe Ford Collection The Walters Art Museum Baltimore; Birmingham Museum of Art Birmingham; Santa Barbara Museum of Art Santa Barbara; Albuquerque Museum Albuquerque 2001-2003 place of origin Tibet Walters Art Museum license Tibetan art in the Walters Art Museum Metalwork of Tibet Phurba Buddhist items Axe heads | ||||
