A MASSIVE TIBETAN PARCEL-GILT SILVER MONK'S CAP EWER

18TH/19TH CENTURY

The hammered body tapering toward the foot, with panels of gilt openwork Buddhist emblems amongst scrolls and foliage, the powerfully-modelled handle formed as a dragon, 52cm.

Provenance: from an English private collection.

Cf. Treasures of the Snow Mountains, p.180, no.91 for a closely related example in the Potala Palace collection.