Cabinet with Chitipati
The gleefully dancing skeletons painted on this cabinet are commonly known as chitipati, lords ("pati") of the cremation ground or funeral pyre ("chiti"). They serve many functions for practitioners of tantric Buddhist rituals, from protection to the guarding of wealth. The la...
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Spink & Son, London [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; John and Berthe Ford, Baltimore, June 14, 1995, by purchase.
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en
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