Scabbard
Sheath
51-4-69B
From: Tibet
Curatorial Section: Asian
| Object Number | 51-4-69B |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Tibetan |
| Provenience | Tibet |
| Date Made | 15th Century - 1935 |
| Section | Asian |
| Materials | False Coral | Iron | Wood |
| Technique | Repousee |
| Description | Sheat of cloth covered wood; single piece iron binding beautifully worked with gold tendrils and holding one large silver stud; retained on obverse between binding is an inset of silver repousee in four panels separated by three immense false corals. Panel and binding of silver repousee at open end. |
| Credit Line | Gift of Mrs. Robert R. Service, 1951 |
| Other Number | 138 - Other Number |
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