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A COMPLETE AND RARE SET OF 71 IRON SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS, TIBET, 19TH CENTURY
奥地利
04月16日 下午5点 开拍 /14天1小时
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The set comprises multiple types of instruments, including a total of four forceps (both straight and curved), one screw, seventeen hooks of varying depths and profiles, nineteen knives and lancets with leaf-shaped and spatulate blades, three forks, five needles, and sixteen probes likely intended for mixing, scraping, or cauterizing substances, along with other specialized tools. Many of the instruments are neatly incised with scrolling motifs, zig-zag bands, and ring-punched decoration.All kept inside a matching leather roll-up case. (72)Provenance: From the collection of Douglas Arbittier, MD, MBA, deaccessioned from the Arbittier Museum of Medical History, York County, Pennsylvania, USA. Douglas Arbittier is a physician, medical historian, and lifelong collector whose passion for the material culture of medicine began in his teens and grew into the Arbittier Museum of Medical History, a rigorously documented collection of more than 3,000 medical artifacts spanning from the ninth century to the late 1800s. What started with a single, garage-sale examination chair evolved—through formal study, decades of research, and discerning connoisseurship—into one of the most comprehensive private collections of pre-modern surgical instruments, bloodletting devices, Civil War medical sets, and physician presentation pieces in the United States. As a collector, Arbittier is known for his insistence on provenance and scholarship, a trait that not only defines the museum's curatorial standards but also led him to play a pivotal role in exposing a major international art forgery scheme in collaboration with the FBI. Today, the museum stands as both a visual archive of medical innovation and a testament to Arbittier's belief that the history of medicine must be preserved, interrogated, and made accessible rather than hidden in storage. Condition: Excellent condition with only minor wear. Corrosion to iron, and remnants of old varnish, shallow surface scratches, tiny warping, minor nicks and dents. The leather with soiling.Weight: 7.5 kg Dimensions: Length 91 cm (the case)This large and rare set of iron surgical instruments offers remarkable insight into the long and sophisticated tradition of Tibetan medicine. Preserved examples of Tibetan surgical tools are exceptionally scarce. Such instruments are frequently illustrated in historical medical thangkas and were designed for specialized procedures including bloodletting, cauterization, and minor surgery.Tibetan surgical knowledge was already highly advanced by the eighth century, as recorded in the Four Volumes of Medicine Dictionary, which codified detailed anatomical knowledge, including 360 bones, bodily meridians, and the operational use of surgical instruments. According to this authoritative text, Tibetan surgeons were capable of performing complex procedures such as craniotomy nearly a millennium before such practices became known in Western medicine. Surgical expertise was also intertwined with Tibetan funerary customs: the practice of celestial burial required skilled dissection, reinforcing the cultural and spiritual context in which such instruments were used.Literature comparison: Compare a closely related Tibetan box of surgical instruments in the collection of the Qinghai Tibetan Medicine Cultural Museum. Compare a group of related Tibetan surgical instruments in the Rubin Museum of Art, illustrated on Himalayan Art Resources, item number 65092.Auction result comparison: Type: Related Auction: Zacke Vienna, 5 September 2024, lot 1466Price: EUR 6,500 (for 21) : A polychrome wood box with surgical instruments, Tibet, late 19th century Expert remark: Compare the closely related surgical instruments with similar incision work. 13% VAT will be added to the hammer price additional to the buyer's premium - only for buyers within the EU.

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