A TURQUOISE INLAID SILVER ORNAMENT

Description:

Tibet, ca. 1900
B. 13,9 cm
The ornament shaped as a lotus flower-head with eight petals placed around the central raised heart, the whole lavishly inlaid with turquoise beads and the reverse with four-looped rings for attachment to a costume.
South German collection of Chinese art mainly assembled in the 1990's
Very minor traces of age