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Mystery Artefact


Ford Hallam

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I was hoping this curious object might be familiar to someone in our eclectic community.

 

It's gilt bronze and was extremely well made. I don't know if it's Japanese but I'm fairly sure it's from that part of the world, it looks somehow Buddhist.

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Any help would be much appreciated.

 

Thanks

 

Ford

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Hello Ford,

 

looks like a monk staff for me. Google for khakkhara 6 rings. Some of the staff remembers me on your artefact. Maybe the lower end of a staff?

Same initial reaction. Buddhist monk staffhead missing the thin 6 rings?

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the bronze patina looks artificial-

the bronze cast looks very amateurish....

 

in sum- not old.

(least for me)

 

what shall this thing represent ? ( i do agree with you).

 

( i have to add that good cast should look other...but? what i do tell you? :)  you equally do know it much better!)

 

in sum- throw it away- this is not antique- nor good!

 

me

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Similarity in form is there, but design elements don't look quite right for an asian buddhist attribution. Also workmanship looks overly tight in execution...look at the termination of the scrolls. I would guess a bit of european decorative metalwork, probably french 19th century. Production quality looks excellent to me, patina natural.

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Looks European to me - rather too symmetrical to be Japanese in my opinion. I note the small hole at the end of the handle suggesting it was hung on a cord, the whole thing having a 17th century religious look about it. I wonder if the circular hole once held a relic with thin glass either side.

Ian Bottomley

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A monstrance? It would be a pitiful example, even though gilded. Nothing to hold the luna and no latching mech for the glass. I am thinking some sort of finial, but to what, is the question. Roof peak maybe, it has weathering and verdigris, maybe? John

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Be it finial or pendant, think in multiples, this seems one bit of a larger whole. Definately not a monstrance. The rather ambiguous design says later 19th century european revivalist design...oddly familiar but not an exact model of what it purports to be.

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