拍品 37
37
A Rare Bronze Ceremonial Vessel
A Rare Bronze Ceremonial Vessel

SRI LANKA, ANURADHAPURA PERIOD, CIRCA 5TH CENTURY

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A Rare Bronze Ceremonial Vessel
Sri Lanka, Anuradhapura Period, circa 5th Century
The round vessel with slightly waisted neck, decorated around the sides in relief with the eight auspicious emblems amid scrolling vines
4¼ in. (10.7 cm.) high

拍品專文

The astamangala, or 'eight auspicious signs', are interpreted in different ways in Hindu, Jain and Buddhist traditions and appear in Sri Lanka in early Buddhist sculpture; compare with a smaller rounded bronze vessel, in U. von Schroeder, The Golden Age of Sculpture in Sri Lanka, Masterpieces of Buddhist and Hindu Bronzes from Museums in Sri Lanka, 1992, cat. no. 2, p. 21.