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A COPPER ALLOY?MAHAPARINIRVANA?STUPA?
TIBET, CIRCA 14TH CENTURYHimalayan Art Resources item no.16912 12 1/8 in. (30.9 cm) high
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西藏?約十四世紀 大般涅槃銅佛塔??This bronze model stupa distinguishes itself from average examples due to the precision of its casting, including the finely articulated lotus petals around the base and below its spired parasol. The stupa also survives in near-pristine condition with a buttery patina. Its shape was popular among the Kadam and Kagyu orders of Tibetan Buddhism. Examples of this scale can be seen on altar tables in front of monk-donor figures in the bottom registers of 13th-/14th-century Tibetan paintings (e.g. Kossak & Singer, Sacred Visions, New York, 1998, pp.95 & 97, nos. 19-20). The interiors of these model stupas were consecrated, either with the cremated remains of a spiritually-attained hierarch, or with other contents blessed by a lama, making their presence auspicious.??Compare a closely related, larger example published in Hall (ed.), Tibet: Tradition and Change, Albuquerque, 1997, pp.158-9, pl.79b. Also see Czaja & Proser (eds.), Golden Visions of Densatil, New York, 2014, pp.172-3, no.45; and Sotheby's, New York, 20 March 2001, lot 149.???Provenance?Michael Cohn Asian Art, New York, 3 February 2001?Private West Coast Collection