Yarhu: Nested Reliquaries - Cylindrical Boxes, Lids, Relics, and Pearls
Copper and silver
Yarhu: Nested Reliquaries
CHINA, Xinjiang, Turpan; Southern Song to Yuan dynasty
These nested reliquaries, relics, and pearls were excavated from the site of Yarhu in Xinjiang in 1994. They are dated to the 13th century, at the time of transition from the Song to the Yuan dynasty.
The reliquaries consist of two identical cylindrical boxes with lids. The outer box is 4 cm high with a diameter of 1.7 cm, and the inner box measures 2.8 cm high and 0.9 cm in diameter. There is paper lining the bottom of the box and it contains five relics wrapped in cloth and three pearls. The relics are in different sizes and appear to glisten.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Artifacts, page 377.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Yarhu: Nested Reliquaries." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Artifacts , vol. 18, 2016, pp. 377.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Youji, Stefanie Pokorski, Mankuang, and Wen Fan. 2016. "Yarhu: Nested Reliquaries" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Artifacts , 18:377.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Youji, Pokorski, S., Mankuang, & Fan, W.. (2016). Yarhu: Nested Reliquaries. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Artifacts (Vol. 18, pp. 377).
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