Fire-offering ladle
Eastern Tibet, Derge, for China
Ming dynasty (1368–1644), Yongle mark and period (1403–24)
This ladle and its companion (1993.477.1.1a, b) were used to make offerings of fuel during a Homa ceremony. The superb gold and silver inlay is characteristic of early fifteenth-century Tibetan workmanship associated with Derge, Kham Province, eastern Tibet.
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