A Sino-Mongolian table prayer wheel, 18th/19th Century

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A Sino-Mongolian table prayer wheel, 18th/19th Century
cast as a hexagonal pagoda, the base decorated with panels of twin Buddhistic lions with inlaid brocade ball and dragons chasing a inlaid flaming pearls, the vertically mounted prayer wheel sits behind a low fenced perimeter surrounded by six scrolling dragon columns which support the twin roofs and dragonhead buttresses, the tall slender finial acts as a rod for spinning the prayer wheel - 16in. (40.7cm) high.

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An almost identical example, one of two, given by the Dowager, Marchioness of Dudley, is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, inventory number IM 119-1911. For a discussion of Sino-Mongolian metalwork in the Tibetan style, see the article by John Clarke, curator in the Indian Section of the Victoria and Albert Museum, Orientations Magazine, May 1992, PP.65-75; fig.24 for an illustration of one of the table prayer wheels in the museum collection.

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