AN IMPRESSIVE PAIR OF SILVER-MOUNTED WOODEN TEMPLE GUARDIANS (DVARAPALAS) SPEARS
Possibly Rajasthan or Northern India, 19th century

AN IMPRESSIVE PAIR OF SILVER-MOUNTED WOODEN TEMPLE GUARDIANS (DVARAPALAS) SPEARS
Possibly Rajasthan or Northern India, 19th century

Each wooden stem carved in the round with overimposed globular knobs, the top fitted with a spearhead with a spiky double-sided steel blade with a thick medial ridge and recessed forte, each blade attached to a silver mount in the shape of a lion's head, below it a silver cusped blazon inscribed in Devanagari script reading ठि वस्सी (Thi Vassi), the base embellished with a densely ornate bulbous silver mount with foliate chevron bands, gadrooned knobs, rope-twisted fretwork bands, and a globular pommel at the end, these motifs often interspersed amidst lobed flower collars with numerous petals, the three fluted silver-fitted grips repeating the same rope-twisted bands of the base and adding engraved fish-scale designs in the middle, each spear divided in half and joint with a screw located at the height of the second grip, each 231cm high.

(Quantity:2)

Dimensions: each 231cm high