Medicinal skullcap bowl BU595D
Medicinal bowl/grinder used to prepare medicinal herbs. It has been over-modeled with black lacquer in the shape of the face of Rahu, the demon that eats the Moon, then gilded.
Bone, said to be of a deceased prominent Buddhist monk.
Mandalay, Northern Burma.
19th-early 20th century.
Diameter: 115 mm.