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Lot 198
AN EMBOSSED COPPER CENSOR
Estimated Value:
900 € - 1.500 €
Schätzpreis:
1.300 €
Description:
East-Tibet, 19th c.H. 39 cm
The bulbous-shaped censor placed on three legs issued each by a lion-mask, its base embossed as an open lotus flower, the side hammered with various divinities, Buddhist emblems and the mantra ‘aum ah hum’, the raised rim incised with a meandering band, a pair of handles in the form of gui-dragons, set with a cover embossed as a double roofed pavilion, one roof decorated with minute bells and topped with a pinnacle.
From an old southern German private collection, supplemented by inheritance in the 1950s and acquisitions in the 1960s until the 1980s - Slightly chipped, minor traces of age
