Native Name | Chorten |
Object Number | 51-4-35 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Tibetan | Buddhist |
Provenience | Tibet |
Date Made | 15th Century - 1935 |
Section | Asian |
Materials | Brass | Copper |
Iconography | Chorten | Stupa |
Description | Reliquary in shape of chorten (stupa). Brass with copper bottom. This type is the Kadampa style which features a parasol top and thirteen discs atop a bell shaped bottom on a double lotus base. |
Height | 19.5 cm |
Outside Diameter | 11 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of Mrs. Robert R. Service, 1951 |
Other Number | 219 uncertain - Other Number | 200 uncertain - Other Number |
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