Ritual dagger, Phurbu, in bronze, the handle in... Lot 23

Ritual dagger, Phurbu, in bronze, the handle in copper alloy decorated at the top with three mahakala heads, the triple iron blade, spat out by a makara head and adorned with intertwining snakes, is meant to symbolically cut the three poisons: attachment, aversion and ignorance. TIBET, 19th century. H : 27 cm (in a cloth case)