Antique Asian Metal Double Headed Ornament Fragment patterns and really wonderful

and really wonderful

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this the second of them

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Antique Asian Metal Double Headed Ornament Fragment patterns and really wonderfulI know that this small piece is a fragment from an incredibly intricate mixed metal overlay on an antique Asian table, Chinese or Southeast Asian I am not sure. At first, based on the color, I thought it might be hide, but it is definitely metal, though brass or bronze or silver I am not entirely sure; from what I understand the table incorporated all three. I just love the silhouette of these two heads facing in opposite direction, I assume