The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 19, 2024
Three-pronged Vajra Pestle (Sankosho)
early 1300s
Location: not on view
Did You Know?
The vajra is said to tear through ignorance like a powerful thunderbolt.Description
Called a vajra in Sanskrit, a pestle of this kind is an Esoteric Buddhist ritual implement derived from the thunderbolt held by the Indian Vedic god Indra. The round forms along the center of the handle, known as demon eyes, are rather compressed in this example, and the lotus petal shapes near the prongs are quite sharply delineated.- Japanese Gallery 235 Rotation - July 2017-January 2018. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (July 15, 2017-January 2, 2018).Cleveland Museum of Art, 1977: In the Nature of Materials - Japanese Decorative Arts.Year in Review: 1974. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 11-April 6, 1975).Cleveland Museum of Art, 1975: Year in Review 1974.
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