Description: dating: 19th Century provenance: Tibet, With wooden structure held by leather laces. Saddlebows covered with brass and silver foils outside, finely decorated in bass-relief with dragons and other mythological animals; portraying in the center the hermit and Buddhist effigy of the Garuda bird holding a snake among the claws. Portraying dragons on silver foils on the sides. All the plates rimmed in iron. length 52 cm.