Ritual Flaying Knife
c. 1407–1410
Maker Unknown
Indian and Southeast Asian Art
Ritual Flaying Knife, c. 1407–1410. Sino-Tibetan, Derge School, Yongle period (1403-1427). Iron alloy with gold and silver inlay; overall: 17.4 cm (6 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1978.9.3 This ritual object was gifted to a Tibetan patriarch as part of a set of tantric Buddhist art made in the imperial workshop of the Yongle emperor of the Ming dynasty, who reigned from 1403-1425.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Metalwork
- Formatted Medium
- iron alloy with gold and silver inlay
- Dimensions
- Overall: 17.4 cm (6 7/8 in.)
- Departments
- Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Accession Number
- 1978.9.3
- Credit Line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Exhibitions
- The Circle of Bliss: Buddhist Meditational Art, Defining Yongle: Imperial Art in Early Fifteenth-Century China, Focus: Tantra in Buddhist Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (10/5/2003 - 1/11/2004) and Columbus Museum of Art (2/8/2004 - 5/9/2004): "The Circle of Bliss: Buddhist Meditaional Art," exh. cat. no. 108, p. 366-367.<br>Metropolitan Museum of Art (4/1/2005-7/10/2005): "Defining Yongle: Imperial Art in Fifteenth-Century China"<br><br><br>The Cleveland Museum of Art (05/05/2013 - 09/15/2013); "Focus:Tantra in Buddhist Art"
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 237 Himalayan
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