A SMALL ZITAN AND GILT-COPPER DISPLAY CASE

18TH/19TH CENTURY

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A SMALL ZITAN AND GILT-COPPER DISPLAY CASE
18TH/19TH CENTURY
Of double gourd form, the front with eight apertures, six small and two larger with shaped surrounds, supported by a stepped rectangular base with openwork apron above the foot, the waist with an applied gilt-copper repoussé mount in the form of a ribbon
12½ in. (31.7 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

Such displays cases were used to house small devotional Buddhist figures, as illustrated by a few examples from The Rehol Palace. See Buddhist Art from Rehol, Tibetan Buddhist Images and Ritual Objects from the Qing Dynasty Summer Palace at Chengde, Taipei, 1999, p. 187, pl. 84; and also ibid., p. 180, pl. 80 for a similar display case in cloisonné enamel.

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