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A Chinese tonkin gilt copper ewer and cover
with seated Buddhistic lion finial, made for the Islamic market, with scrolling s-shaped spout and handle, incised with scrolling flowers and foliage and decorated in relief with cartouche shaped panels of birds and butterflies amongst blossoming prunus branches above a tiger and a lion -- 11.1/8in. (28.2cm) high, 18th Century, (slight rubbing).
See Front Cover Illustration.
with seated Buddhistic lion finial, made for the Islamic market, with scrolling s-shaped spout and handle, incised with scrolling flowers and foliage and decorated in relief with cartouche shaped panels of birds and butterflies amongst blossoming prunus branches above a tiger and a lion -- 11.1/8in. (28.2cm) high, 18th Century, (slight rubbing).
See Front Cover Illustration.