A PARCEL-GILT SILVER AND SEMI-PRECIOUS STONE INLAID METAL BOWL

Description:

Mongolia, 19th/ 20th cent.
D. 22 cm
The bowl of a globular-shaped form, placed on a flat base incised with the vishvavajra emblem, along its border applied with a band of lotus petals, its body ornamented with the Eight Buddhist emblems, the wide mouth decorated with a gilt-metal pearl-shaped border ornamented with swaying tassels set with turquoise and red coral beads interlinked with applied floral-shaped plaques encompassing each a large turquoise bead.
Old Southern German private collection, assembled since the 1970s - Very minor traces of age