A LARGE SINO-TIBETAN PARCEL-GILT SILVER RITUAL EWER 19TH CENTURY Of monk's cap shape, the wide shoulder decorated in repoussé with a jeweled and ruyi -head border extending down the tapering ovoid body, with repoussé trefoils and stylized floral scrolling on the spreading foot and repoussé Buddhist symbols in a wide band above lotus lappets on the neck, the long spout with repoussé dragon-head at the junction with the mouth, the rim stepped in the shape of a Monk's cap, a large dragon-form handle attached by pins through the five-clawed talons 17½in. (44.4cm.) high
A LARGE SINO-TIBETAN PARCEL-GILT SILVER RITUAL EWER 19TH CENTURY Of monk's cap shape, the wide shoulder decorated in repoussé with a jeweled and ruyi -head border extending down the tapering ovoid body, with repoussé trefoils and stylized floral scrolling on the spreading foot and repoussé Buddhist symbols in a wide band above lotus lappets on the neck, the long spout with repoussé dragon-head at the junction with the mouth, the rim stepped in the shape of a Monk's cap, a large dragon-form handle attached by pins through the five-clawed talons 17½in. (44.4cm.) high
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