Ritual Flaying Knife
1407–1410
- Medium
- iron alloy with gold and silver inlay
- Dimensions
- Overall: 17.4 cm (6 7/8 in.)
- Genre
- metalwork
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Tags
Sino-Tibetan, Derge School, Yongle period (1403-1427)
About
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.