A GILT-BRONZE BUDDHIST HALO JAPAN, KAMAKURA PERIOD, 12TH CENTURY |

delicately cast with a lotus blossom adorned with overlapping petals surrounding a band of openwork stamen and a central pod, the bloom enclosed by a roundel with radiating rods issuing from the reverse, the reverse of the roundel further secured with a thin rod modelled on one side as a bamboo shoot