A BRONZE STUPA, TIBET, 13TH CENTURY | 十三世紀 藏傳銅佛塔

Susan Chen, Hong Kong.

陳淑貞，香港

The tiered upper section with closed lotus finial on this stupa is associated with the Kadampa sect which revived Tibetan Buddhism after the 11th century. A bronze stupa, closely related to the present example, is in the British Museum, London (Zwalf 1985, p.139, no.198). Zwalf discusses a further stupa from this group, now in the Newark Museum. Its contents were examined and found to include barley grains, dated by radiocarbon analysis to circa 1230.

A similar example was sold in our Paris rooms, 11th December 2014, lot 168.