Footed Butter Lamp Incised with Offerings of the Five Senses: Sight, Sound, Smell, Taste and Touch

Tibet

17th century

  • Titles Footed Butter Lamp Incised with Offerings of the Five Senses: Sight, Sound, Smell, Taste and Touch (Descriptive)
  • Medium silver, repousse, engraved and chased
  • Dimensions 2 3/8 × 3 1/2 in. Diam. (6 × 8.9 cm)
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Louise Sewell Taylor and William Hill Sewell in memory of their parents, Dr. and Mrs. Joseph W. Sewell, Jr., AFI.95.2016
  • Work Type stem cup
  • Classification Containers

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