Bao’en Temple Pagoda: Reliquary - Blue Reliquary
Glass
Bao’en Temple Pagoda: Reliquaries - Greenish Blue Reliquary
Bao’en Temple Pagoda: Reliquaries - Orange Reliquary
Bao’en Temple Pagoda: Reliquaries
CHINA, Anhui, Liu’an; Northern Song dynasty
Thin as a sheet of paper, these three glass reliquaries were recovered from the underground palace of Bao’en Temple Pagoda in 1977. The blue reliquary is 10.3 cm high with a diameter of 2.5 cm at its widest point. It has a concave base, a thin, long body, and a neck that is shaped like a narrow inverted cone. The body is decorated with wavy lines followed by a horizontal line that splits into two. The greenish blue reliquary is shaped like a gourd. It measures 8.6 cm high with a diameter of 6.5 cm. The orange reliquary has a broad base and is spherical with a wide mouth. It is 6 cm high with a diameter of 6 cm.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Artifacts, page 7.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Bao’en Temple Pagoda: Reliquaries." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Artifacts , vol. 18, 2016, pp. 7.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Youji, Stefanie Pokorski, Mankuang, and Wen Fan. 2016. "Bao’en Temple Pagoda: Reliquaries" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Artifacts , 18:7.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Youji, Pokorski, S., Mankuang, & Fan, W.. (2016). Bao’en Temple Pagoda: Reliquaries. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Artifacts (Vol. 18, pp. 7).
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