A large wooden bowl with fine silver repoussé work featuring a dragon motif

Description:

Bhutan or Tibet, 19th/early 20th century
D. 34 cm
The wood bowl is standing on slightly everted silver-alloy stand, its bottom embossed with a dragon, its side with scrolling tendrils, the silver section is embossed with a broad band containing twelve animals amidst scrolling tendrils placed between a smaller band decorated with a pair of dragons chasing the jewels and a small band above with a stylized floral rim and the inside with a plain silver cover which is extended over the rim.
Private collection in southern Germany - Minor signs of age and minimal damage