Lot Essay
See illustration page 81
19TH CENTURY
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A pair of miniature lac burgaute ritual food vessels, gui
19th Century
The basin with S-profile sides supported on a splayed foot, applied with dragon-head scroll handles with pendant flanges, inlaid with mother-of-pearl and gilt wire with a mask-design reserved on a leiwen ground, the interior of the everted rim with key-fret and pointed-leaf-pattern bands
4 cm high (2)
19th Century
The basin with S-profile sides supported on a splayed foot, applied with dragon-head scroll handles with pendant flanges, inlaid with mother-of-pearl and gilt wire with a mask-design reserved on a leiwen ground, the interior of the everted rim with key-fret and pointed-leaf-pattern bands
4 cm high (2)