TIBET - GLASS PLATES - Lot 248

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TIBET - GLASS PLATES - Lot 248
TIBET - GLASS PLATES A collection of positive glass plates depicting portraits of Tibetans and views of objects from the country, ca. 1910. Photographs. 22 vintage glass plates, some with a label reading “Bacot. Objects from Tibet” (sic) inscribed in ink. 23.5 x 17.5 cm Portraits including a man from the Kham region, jewelry, a powder flask, gold and silverware, a statue of a monk, a Buddhist statuette in the Yab-Yum posture, and a statue of a Dalai Lama. During his expeditions, the geographer, linguist, and ethnologist Jacques Bacot (1877–1965) collected objects and paintings in Tibet. He donated them to the Guimet Museum in 1912.
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