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• Auction House:
  Bonhams Australia
• Sale Name:
  Asian Art
• Sale Date:
  07 Dec 2022 ~ Session 1 (Lots 1 - 143) 2pm (AEDT)
  07 Dec 2022 ~ Session 2 (Lots 201 - 294) 6pm (AEDT)
• Lot #:
  141
• Lot Description:
  An iron pommel plate from a saddle, and a silver and copper inkwell
  Tibet, the pommel plate 17th/18th century, the inkwell 19th century
  30.2cm long, 11.8cm high (2).
• Provenance:
  (the pommel plate:) Soo Tze Orientique, Melbourne, 17 Mar 1993; (the inkwell:) Joshua McClelland Print Room, Melbourne, 4 Oct 1989; Melbourne private collection
• Notes:
  The pommel plate in this lot belongs to a small group of closely related saddles that may stem from a single workshop or reflect a specific type developed in one region. Notable features are the lively dragons, chiselled free from the scrollwork ground, and the unusual decorative technique involving silver damascening of the entire surfaces of the saddle plates, with selected design elements highlighted by mercury gilding over the silver. Compare with a saddle with similar plate, of slightly different shape but incorporating the same manufacturing techniques, in the collection of Metropolitan Museum, acc.no. 1997.214.1.
• Estimate:
  A$1,200 - 1,500
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Oriental

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