A RARE PARCEL GILT-IRON AND WOOD SADDLE WITH MOVABLE DERGE FITTINGS

Description:

Tibet, 17th cent.
L. 62 cm
The wood saddle consisting of various sections set together, decorated with horse-shoe shaped gilt-iron ornaments to front and back, both finely wrought with a pair of dragons chasing the flaming pearl amidst scrolling tendrils and four further smaller sections wrought with the same design.
Old and important Southern German private collection, assembled from the 1970's onwards - Some fittings lost, minor wear and traces of age