Jingchuan: Nested Reliquaries
Glass and stone
Jingchuan: Nested Reliquaries
CHINA, Gansu, Pingliang; Northern Zhou dynasty
These reliquaries were excavated in 1969. The bottle was found preserved in a bronze casket inside a cuboid stone container and measures 5.8 cm high and 2.6 cm in diameter at its widest point. It consists of a spherical body with a slender neck and a yellowish translucent body. The stone container has a tight-fitting lid with beveled edges. It is undecorated and has a color similar to that of the bottle.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Artifacts, page 144.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Jingchuan: Nested Reliquaries." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Artifacts , vol. 18, 2016, pp. 144.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Youji, Stefanie Pokorski, Mankuang, and Wen Fan. 2016. "Jingchuan: Nested Reliquaries" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Artifacts , 18:144.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Youji, Pokorski, S., Mankuang, & Fan, W.. (2016). Jingchuan: Nested Reliquaries. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Artifacts (Vol. 18, pp. 144).
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