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A GOLD REPOUSSÉ MINIATURE RELIQUARY STUPA WITH 21 INSCRIBED GOLD SHEET STRIPS, ANCIENT REGION
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2025年10月16日 开拍
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A GOLD REPOUSSé MINIATURE RELIQUARY STUPA WITH 21 INSCRIBED GOLD SHEET STRIPS, ANCIENT REGION OF GANDHARAExpert's note: This miniature stupa was most likely created as a portable reliquary, intended to safeguard sacred contents. The accompanying set of 21 inscribed gold sheet sutras has been associated with the stupa at some point, with only a few fitting inside at any one time. In this way, selected texts could be carried during travels or pilgrimage and used in daily devotion. While the precise function cannot be established with certainty, parallels with other miniature stupas suggest that such objects served both as containers of relics and as portable objects of worship.Kushan empire, circa 1st-3rd century. Constructed in two parts out of hammered gold, the ridged cylindrical base housing a hammered gold scroll, and surmounted by a spherical dome with granulated repoussé decoration which issues a tiered chhatri, terminating in a rounded knop, the reliquary containing a rolled-up strip of gold sheet.The lot comprises twenty-one strips of gold sheet minutely punched with Buddhist inscriptions. (22)Provenance: The collection of The Zelnik István Southeast Asian Gold Museum. Institutional art collection in Belgium, acquired from the above. Dr. István Zelnik, President of the Hungarian South and Southeast Asian Research Institute, is a former high-ranking Hungarian diplomat who spent several decades in Southeast Asia, building the largest known private collection of Asian art in Europe.Condition: Good condition with expected wear, encrustations, light warping, small dents, few tiny nicks, losses, the strips with some creasing.Alloy composition range: 86.77% gold, 13.03% silver, and 0.19% copper (the stupa base); 85.45% gold, 14.48% silver, and 0.06% copper (one strip). The lot was tested by the Zelnik István Southeast Asian Gold Museum. Weight: 11.6 g (in total), approx. 7.2 g (each strip)Dimensions: Height 3.1 cm (the stupa), ca. 4.5 cm (each strip)According to the traditions of several sects including the Sarvastivadins and Mulasarvastivadins, before his death the Buddhas stated that there was no difference between relics and himself. Such teaching resulted in the reliquary cult of the stupa. Relics that were enshrined in stupas tended to take three forms: those believed to be the corporeal remains of the Buddha himself or their enlightened beings; objects associated with the life of the Buddha, such as his alms bowl, staff, robe, and sutras; and finally the funerary remains of eminent members of the Buddhist community. Complete reliquary groups cannot be identified with certainty because these groups were frequently split and reassigned to new locations by followers to increase the potency of a newly built stupa.Zwalf mentions that the range of material considered suitable for deposition was considerable, but a relic chamber typically might contain a miniature stone stupa or metal casket which contained further relics including gold, fragments of bones, semiprecious stones, pearls and smaller caskets. Literature comparison: Compare a closely related gold reliquary in the form of a stupa, 5 cm high, dated to the 1st century AD, in the British Museum, registration number 2004,0331.1. Compare a related gold and crystal reliquary, Sri Lanka, Anuradhapura period, dated c. 2nd century, 13.5 cm high, in the Alsdorf Collection, and illustrated by Pratapaditya Pal, Collecting Odyssey, 1997, cat. no. 93.

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