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A GILT COPPER ALLOY COMMEMERATIVE STUPA WITH TSONGKHAPA
QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY
清十九世紀 銅鎏金嵌寶宗喀巴佛塔
This ornately decorated stupa with a waisted square section depicting two confronting lions flanking three flaming jewels, sits below a platform of three rounded graduated steps leading to a domed niche which depicts Tsongkhapa (1357-1419), the great founder of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism. Regarded as an esteemed spiritual leader and scholar, his ubiquitous image was commemorated for centuries in paintings and sculptures alike, as indicated here. The beaded swags along the dome and blossom finials which flank the spire as well as the inset jewels of turquoise and coral were a popular style of stupa made during the Qing dynasty. Another example of this type sold at Sotheby's, Paris, 23 June, 2016, lot 152.
Published:
Ramon Prats, et.al., Monasterios y lamas del Tibet, Madrid, Fundación "La Caixa", 2000, p. 123, no. 72.
Exhibited:
Monasterios y lamas del Tibet, Fundación "La Caixa", Madrid, November 2000-January 2001.
Provenance:
Ashencaen and Leonov, London, 2000s