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A Tibetan iron container for food bowl, 16th/17th century, Dege,…
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A Tibetan iron container for food bowl, 16th/17th century, Dege, with etched gilding of 'shou' symbols, 18.5 cm diameter x 9.5 cm high. Provenance: Private collection, Sydney. Note: This type of metalwork was produced in exceedingly high quality and vast number in Tibet as early as the 14th and 15th century. Iron is one of the five treasures of Tibetan Buddhism, among gold, silver, copper and brass. Hence it is not surprising that the Tibetans made so many pieces of iron and lavishly decorated them with gold and silver. The unique technology has been known as 'damascening' to Europeans, but called 'Dege' in China, the name of the town through which the metal work was brought to the China-proper. Different from the common inlaid-works, Dege works have their surface of the wrought iron abraded and then gold and/or silver applied in highly decorative patterns
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Oriental: Zother