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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE CALIFORNIA COLLECTION
1035
A VERY RARE AND UNUSUALLY
LARGE CARVED RED LACQUER
BUDDHIST STUPA
18TH-19TH CENTURY
The high-shouldered shrine, which is raised on a
waisted lotus, is carved around the sides with leafy
lotus scroll incorporating shou characters, and
has a petal-shaped opening on one side, all below
a band of monster masks suspending beaded
chains and a band of ruyi and lotus-flled petal
lappets. The whole is surmounted by a separate
section of fve graduated Buddhist umbrellas, each
tier carved with a band of shou characters, which
also encircle the sides of the separate, stepped
pedestal base.
31Ω in. (80 cm.) high
$10,000-15,000

PROVENANCE
The collection of Ambassador Jacob Gould
Schurman (1854-1942), and thence by descent
within the family.

Dr. Schurman served as President of Cornell
University (1892-1920), President of the First
Philippine Commission (1899-1900), the United
States Ambassador to Greece and the Balkans
(1912-13 during which time he wrote the book
“The Balkan Wars 1912-1913”), the United States
Envoy to the Republic of China (1921-1925) and
the United States Ambassador to Germany
1925-1929.

A very similar lacquer stupa is in the collection of
The Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art,
Staten Island, New York, and is illustrated by B.
Lipton in Treasures of Tibetan Art: Collections
of the Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art,
New York, 1996, p. 47, no. 7.
清十八/十九世紀 剔紅壽字纏枝蓮紋大佛塔

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