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# Dish

Dish or tray for Tibetan Lamaist use, imitating an open lotus-flower with crystal petals. Of silver, parcel-gilt and jewelled. The central boss, a crystal dragon of conventional form, is flanked by four crystal Tamdin-heads, separated by gems, arranged in a design of butterflies, flowers and petal motives.

- **Kind:** artefact
- **Date:** 1700–1899 CE

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Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.vam.im-142-1922](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.vam.im-142-1922) · Pramāṇa
