拍品 1169
1169
AN UNUSUAL GILT REPOUSSE COPPER ALTAR EMBLEM
AN UNUSUAL GILT REPOUSSE COPPER ALTAR EMBLEM

18TH CENTURY

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AN UNUSUAL GILT REPOUSSE COPPER ALTAR EMBLEM
18TH CENTURY
The hollow upper sections with convex roundels on both sides chased with eight bowls filled with auspicious offerings within a rope-twist border and an outer flame border, the whole supported on a narrow shaft flanked by four leafy lotus scrolls issuing from crashing waves and rockwork atop the lotus petal-chased, pedestal foot
8½ in. (21.8 cm.) high

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Compare a related, though more elaborate gilt repoussè copper altar emblem incorporating the Wheel of the Law, illustrated in A Special Exhibition of Buddhist Gilt Votive Objects, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1995, p. 79, no. 8.