The tea bowl is of slightly flaring form and stands on a high foot. the cover is delicately decorated in with four shaped panels enclosing dragons and cranes on a wan-symbol ground below four cartouches enclosing the Eight Buddhist Symbols, all surmounted by a lotus bud finial decorated with scrolling foliage. The wooden stem dish is mounted with a metal rim decorated with scrolling flowers, the foot is encircled by a metal band decorated with lappets. Provenance: Jan Brummelhuis collection, Amsterdam. Origin: Mongolia Period: 19th Century Sizes: 8.00 cm. H x 21.00 cm. diameter 3.15 in. H x 8.27 in. diameter