Description: Tibetan copper and silver tea vessel, late 19th century, having a lotus bud finial surmounting a pierced lid decorated with flowers and bands of Lantsa script above a globular body adorned with two applied silver rondels containing writhing dragons, the handle shaped in the form of a gui-dragon and the spout shaped as the head and trunk of a makara (mythical creature), the whole resting on a flared circular foot, 11.5"h x 12"l x 7.6"w.