Ritual Blade Paracu Chinese Tibetan bronze iron silver gilt

Ritual Blade (Paracu)

Chinese-Tibetan

Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644)

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Dish with cavred lotus flower in center
A Korean whiteware most likely used as floral vase often silk or paper flowers for aristocrats The body is covered with a crackled transparent glaze of pronounced blue cast that makes the vase show a lightly celadon blue hue The vase has a sloping shoulder and an upright circular rim and is resting on a raised ring foot with patch of kiln grit on recessed base Lightweight possibly 19th or even 20th century
Sakyamuni seated in meditation right before his Enlightenment
flower floral peony scroll leaf