Mughal Ivory Powder Horn

Carved ivory primer with an overall shape of a fish-like composite animal. Its decoration in high relief consists of a winged lion attacking an antelope with elephant heads on either side. These animals of the hunt are repeated in smaller scale and in high and low relief.

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