A RITUAL BRONZE BELL, GHANTA.

Tibet, 19th Century.

Cast in white metal, the dome with Sanskrit characters enclosed in lappets, a band of stylised masks with fringes to the shoulder and a band of vajras around the rim, the inside with a short inscription and an iron clapper, the handle formed as a ring with a mask surmounted by a four-pronged half-vajra, 18.5 H.

西藏十九世紀 銅鈴