Antique Tibetan Brass Ink Pot
A small cast-brass Tibetan ink pot of the form used by scribes and monastery copyists, with a rounded body and narrow mouth designed to hold ground ink for transcribing prayers and manuscripts by hand.
Before printing spread through the monasteries, Tibetan texts were copied by hand, and an ink pot like this sat beside every scribe. Cast in brass and worn smooth with use, it has the honest, funct...
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Before printing spread through the monasteries, Tibetan texts were copied by hand, and an ink pot like this sat beside every scribe. Cast in brass and worn smooth with use, it has the honest, functional beauty of a true working object.
The compact body and inturned rim helped keep the ink from spilling or drying out. A quietly evocative artefact of Tibetan literary and devotional life, well suited to a collection of writing implements or ritual objects.
