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Lot 111

A gilt-bronze stupa
Tibetan, 18th century

10 November 2016, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

£8,000 - £12,000

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A gilt-bronze stupa

Tibetan, 18th century
Heavily cast, raised on a waisted pedestal cast on each side with pairs of confronted Buddhist lions flanking a triratna, the drum decorated with strings of beads and a small opening containing a relief of the Sakyamuni Buddha in bhumisparsa mudra, the tiered spira carrying the canopy flanked by trailing garlands and capped by the sun-moon symbol and a drop-shaped turquoise.
21cm (8 1/4in) high

Footnotes

西藏十八世紀 銅鎏金佛塔

Provenance: an English private collection
Sold in these rooms on 15 May 2014, lot 396
An English private collection

來源:英國私人舊藏
2014年5月15日於倫敦邦瀚斯拍賣,拍品396號
英國私人收藏

The drop-shaped turquoise crowning the stupa symbolises ratna, the 'Jewel of the Law'. A related gilt-bronze stupa, Qianlong, was sold in these Rooms on 14 May 2015, lot 59.

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