Antique 18th Century Tibetan Buddhist Gilded Iron Lama's Pen Case Derge 1700 Decorative Arts a Pueblo adobe house to

a Pueblo adobe house to the background

25" wide X 6

He famously designed the Tony Award winning sets for Truman Capote's 1954 Broadway musical "House of Flowers"

The vase of baluster-shaped form and having a neck decorated with cloud forms and a collar of dark iron oxide below

Antique 18th Century Tibetan Buddhist Gilded Iron Lama's Pen Case Derge 1700 Decorative Arts a Pueblo adobe house toA fine & unusally large antique Tibetan gilded iron pen case, circa 1700. The cylindrical pen case in two parts & made from gilded iron, with finely pierced openwork and engraved decoration. At each end is a stylized bulbous shaped lotus blossom finial, both the the short end & long end having skillfully engraved openwork with foliate & dragon decoration. The pencase having two loops to receive a cord so the case could be hung from a sash or belt, the