QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)

Details

TWO GILT-COPPER ALTAR ORNAMENTS
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
Each surmounted by one of the Eight Buddhist Emblems, dharmacakra, 'the Wheel of the Law', inlaid with hardstone cabochons and supported on scrolling leaves rising from a lotus blossom raised on a knopped stem and four foliate brackets rising from a stepped base with shaped apron and ruyi-head supports, with chased and incised details
11½ in. (29 cm.) high

Provenance

Acquired in New York in the 1920s-50s, thence by descent to the present owner.

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Lot Essay

Compare with an identical gilt-copper Wheel of Law emblem in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, included in A Special Exhibition of Buddhist Gilt Votive Objects, Taipei, 1995, no. 10 (fig. 1). Compare, also, another Wheel of Law altar ornament with mother-of-pearl inlaid central wheel included in the same exhibition, no. 11.

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