On the right you can see the handcrafted inside of the kapala (ritual drinking vessel from Ladakh). On the left is the "substructure" that turns the object into a turtle. Bronze casting by Nicola Kirchner, granddaughter of the important sculptor Prof. Heinrich Kirchner (1902 - 1984, see three catalogs, one of his students was Lothar Fischer), who also founded the foundry in Ascholding and a number of his large works can be seen on the Seeon - Seebruck sculpture trail. The commissioned work was done based on the clay model I made. The stylized butterfly ("Search: Butterfly") was deliberately incorporated because it can be found in the structure of the shell of natural tortoises, signed, size 23 cm, see also the image of the outside (skull), under "Search: Kapala". [hint: this is an automatic translation from German]   |   Category: Kultgegenstände   |   Material: Metall   |   Country of origin: Bavaria, Germany   |   Artist: K. L. | Similar pieces