14TH/16TH CENTURY
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AN UNUSUAL TIBETAN GILT-BRONZE RECTANGULAR CENSER AND PIERCED COVER
14th/16th century
The sides incised and gilt on a finely striated ground with the Eight Buddhist Emblems amidst lotus scrolls, standing at either end on shaped feet, the sliding cover opening sideways and cast with a handle on one side, pierced with ferocious confronted dragons within a delicate lotus meander, surface worn
32 in. (81.3 cm.) long
14th/16th century
The sides incised and gilt on a finely striated ground with the Eight Buddhist Emblems amidst lotus scrolls, standing at either end on shaped feet, the sliding cover opening sideways and cast with a handle on one side, pierced with ferocious confronted dragons within a delicate lotus meander, surface worn
32 in. (81.3 cm.) long