Cleveland Museum of Art
Ritual Flaying Knife
- Date
- c. 1407–1410
- Medium
- iron alloy with gold and silver inlay
- Culture
- Sino-Tibetan, Derge School, Yongle period (1403-1427)
- Department
- Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
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.
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