Small ornamented copper dish

Museum number:
9-21935
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Alternate number:
BY.T-112 and T-112 (original number)
Description:
This small copper dish is ornamented with a turquoise stone. It has a bevelled edge and a turquoise stone set in a floral mount in the center. It does not appear to have an ordinary household use and may have some ritual purpose.
Collection place:
Tibet
Verbatim coll. place:
Tibet
Collector:
Theos C. Bernard
Materials:
Copper (metal) and Turquoise (mineral)
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
Production date:
19th-20th century
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Small ornamented copper dish, accession number 9-21935, described as This small copper dish is ornamented with a turquoise stone. It has a bevelled edge and a turquoise stone set in a floral mount in the center. It does not appear to have an ordinary household use and may have some ritual purpose.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Small ornamented copper dish, accession number 9-21935, described as This small copper dish is ornamented with a turquoise stone. It has a bevelled edge and a turquoise stone set in a floral mount in the center. It does not appear to have an ordinary household use and may have some ritual purpose.

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