Stupa
Gilt bronze and crystal
金銅水晶塔
中國
塔由塔基、塔身及塔剎所組成，下有木質方形四足托座。銅質鎏金。塔基呈「亞」字形，立面刻有藏文。塔基上接兩層金剛圈，一層圈飾聯珠紋，四面各置一金剛杵；另一層鑲嵌各色寶石。
塔身水晶質，鐘形，下緣有數圈飾帶，依序作覆蓮瓣、金色仰蓮瓣、各色寶石帶及三葉紋，並以聯珠紋相隔。上有方形剎座，四面皆刻劃一雙佛眼，眉心有第三目，嵌有寶石。鼻梁處作「?」形圖樣。塔剎飾三角形牌面、十三層相輪、華蓋、仰月、日輪及寶珠。
塔形制與尼泊爾佛塔相若，裝飾繁縟，造型優美，尤以剎座及相輪最為精美。
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Artifacts, page 317.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Stupa." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Artifacts , vol. 18, 2016, pp. 317.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Youji, Stefanie Pokorski, Mankuang, and Wen Fan. 2016. "Stupa" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Artifacts , 18:317.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Youji, Pokorski, S., Mankuang, & Fan, W.. (2016). Stupa. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Artifacts (Vol. 18, pp. 317).
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