A TIBETO CHINESE GILT-COPPER STUPA, the square shaped base with embossed lions and jewels, lotus petals and incised scrolling motifs, the central section with a painted Buddha on paper behind a richly embossed frame, chattra flanked by lotuses, surmounted by moon and sun, partly set with coral and turquoise, sealed, late 18th Century

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A TIBETO CHINESE GILT-COPPER STUPA, the square shaped base with embossed lions and jewels, lotus petals and incised scrolling motifs, the central section with a painted Buddha on paper behind a richly embossed frame, chattra flanked by lotuses, surmounted by moon and sun, partly set with coral and turquoise, sealed, late 18th Century
23 cm high
Provenance
Collection Mr. Y. Refoule
Hotel Drouot, 'Objets d'Art d'Extreme-Orient', Paris, April 3 and 5, 1930, no. 228

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