A Tibetan gilt bronze and iron phurba, probably 16th century, the pommel cast with the three heads of Vajrakila beneath a vajra crown finial, the lotus and eternal knot banded handle extending to the mouth of Makara, issuing the iron three-sided tapering blade, length 18.7, together with a Tibetan gilt bronze phurba with zoomorphic wolf-head pommel, lotus and eternal knot banded handle, the mouth of Makara issuing the three-sided tapering blade, length 13.7cm. Provenance: the Alain Presencer Collection.