18TH-19TH CENTURY

Dr. Schurman served as President of Cornell University (1892-1920), President of the First Philippine Commission (1899-1900), the United States Ambassador to Greece and the Balkans (1912-13 during which time he wrote the book “The Balkan Wars 1912-1913”), the United States Envoy to the Republic of China (1921-1925) and the United States Ambassador to Germany 1925-1929.

A very similar lacquer stupa is in the collection of The Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art, Staten Island, New York, and is illustrated by B. Lipton in Treasures of Tibetan Art: Collections of the Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art, New York, 1996, p. 47, no. 7.