The Deydier Vase and Its Tibetan Connections A Preliminary Note

Though Tibetan art is not my speciality, I had an opportunity to come in contact with this field in 2011, when Gérard Fussman asked my opinion on the catalogue of Tibetan metalwork in the Pritzker collection (Chicago), which my late friend Boris Marshak had nearly completed before his untimely death...

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Published inInteraction in the Himalayas and Central Asia Vol. 495; no. 1; pp. 91 - 104
Main Author Grenet, Frantz
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Verlag der österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 07.04.2017
Subjects
Archaeology and Prehistory
Humanities and Social Sciences
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Summary:Though Tibetan art is not my speciality, I had an opportunity to come in contact with this field in 2011, when Gérard Fussman asked my opinion on the catalogue of Tibetan metalwork in the Pritzker collection (Chicago), which my late friend Boris Marshak had nearly completed before his untimely death in 2006 and which will soon be published thanks to the efforts of David Pritzker.¹ Reading this catalogue, I came to realise how much Marshakʹs unrivalled expertise in Sogdian and Turkic metalwork had prepared him to disentangle the various artistic traditions, which, in combination with Tang art, eventually came together
ISBN:370018073X
9783700180739
DOI:10.2307/j.ctt1pv891n.9