Ritual Flaying Knife (c. 1407–1410): Art, History and Details
Ritual Flaying Knife at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1407–1410, iron alloy with gold and silver inlay. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
Ritual Flaying Knife (c. 1407–1410) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
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.
Object facts
- Title: Ritual Flaying Knife
- Date: c. 1407–1410
- Culture: Sino-Tibetan, Derge School, Yongle period (1403-1427)
- Type: Metalwork
- Technique: iron alloy with gold and silver inlay
- Dimensions: Overall: 17.4 cm (6 7/8 in.)
- Collection: Tibetan Art
- Department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Accession number: 1978.9.3
Collection credit
John L. Severance Fund
Further reading listed by the museum
- Huntington, John C., Dina Bangdel, and Robert A. F. Thurman. The Circle of Bliss: Buddhist Meditational Art. Chicago: Serindia Publications, 2003.
View the collection record
See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.
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