[X] APOTHECARY SPOON MADE OF NATIVE WOOD

[X] APOTHECARY SPOON MADE OF NATIVE WOOD
Vietnam / Indochina, Probable work around 1900
Zoomorphic, it takes the shape of a chimera with a waving body. This one has a long coiled trunk and a single horn made of bone and removable. It stretches out its front legs in which it holds a kind of hollow bowl in its breast and opens to a removable lid. Under this bowl, the following ideograms are engraved: ?? / Ng?c Son (missing, splinters, restoration in the tail, broken lid hinge).
L: 44 cm
Note: This could be a unicorn/qilin.

A WOODEN CARVED 'QILIN' APOTHECARY LADLE
Vietnam / Indochina, Presumably circa 1900 Automatically translated by DeepL. To see the original version, click here.