Skull bowl with copper and gold lid and stand

Made:: 1801-1900 in Nepal

Skull bowl with copper and gold lid and stand, heavily decorated, Nepalese, 19th century

Details

Category:: Asian Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A6206

Materials:: bowl, bone, bowl, brass, base, copper, lid, copper and lid, gold

type:: human remains, skull and bowl

credit:: Wellcome Trust

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Parts

Copper and gold stand for skull bowl

Skull bowl on a copper and gold stand, heavily decorated, Nepalese, 19th century

Materials:: skull

Object Number:: A6206/1

type:: human remains

Copper and gold lid for skull bowl

Copper and gold lid for skull bowl, heavily decorated, Nepalese, 19th century

Materials:: copper and gold

Object Number:: A6206/2

type:: human remains

Acquisition label denoting the sale of the copper and gold skull with lid

Acquisition label denoting the sale of the copper and gold skull with lid, which is inscribed: ‘skull vessel set in copper and gold, and decorated turquoise and paste…Tibet. Accession no. 6202. Check number: 4432/ 1st.Feb.1933.