A LARGE SINO-TIBETAN PARCEL-GILT SILVER RITUAL EWER

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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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Lot Essay

For a ewer of this type, with the decoration chased on the body, but of a more squat, bulbous form, see the Catalogue of the Tibetan Collection and Other Lamaist Material in the Newark Museum, vol. V, Newark, New Jersey, 1971, pp. 6 and 44, pl. 6, where the ewer is described as being for either beer or tea