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A BRASS STUPA
TIBET, CIRCA 13TH CENTURY
Himalayan Art Resources item no.16983
22 cm (8 5/8 in.) high
HKD40,000 - 60,000
西藏 約十三世紀 銅質佛塔
A slightly flaring drum emerges from two bands of plump lotus
petals. It is topped by a harmika, thirteen tapering umbrellas, and a
surmounting lotus-bud rising from a lotus-parasol. This stupa-form is
associated with the Kadampa order, which was introduced to Tibet
by its founder Atisha (982-1054). Compare with a larger example
published in Pal, Art of the Himalayas, New York, 1991, p.113, no.55.
Also see similar examples sold at Sotheby’s, London, 31 May 2011,
lot 79; and Christie’s, New York, 13 September 2011, lot 335.
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