A RARE PARCEL-GILT SILVER INCENSE HOLDER AND COVER

China, Tang dynasty, H 13.5 cm, 264 g. The cylindrical container supported on a splayed foot decorated with gilt makara emerging from breaking waves beneath a delicate scroll band, rising to a prominent collar of inverted carved lotus petals. The body finely chased and parcel-gilded with a continuous Buddhist scene depicting guardian kings (Tianwang), accompanied by attendants and kneeling figures set against a dense scrolling foliage background on a ring-punched ground. The flared upper rim chased with a scrolling tendril border. The stepped, domed cover surmounted by a lotus-bud finial and decorated with gilt phoenixes in flight among scrolls and wave borders. 中國，唐代，高 13.5 釐米。 筒形器身，承外撇圈足；足上飾鎏金摩迦羅自翻湧浪濤中躍出，上方環繞細緻卷草紋帶，其上為醒目仰蓮瓣紋束頸。器身錾刻精細、局部鎏金，通景表現佛教題材，繪天王、侍從與跪姿人物，底地滿佈圈點紋，襯以繁密卷葉紋。外撇口沿錾刻纏枝卷蔓邊飾。蓋作階層式穹頂，頂設蓮苞鈕，蓋面飾鎏金飛鳳穿行於卷草與浪紋邊飾之間。 來源：附東京田中美術 1999 年 7 月 14 日發票副本说明。這種形製的圓柱形器皿，部分鎏金，在唐代宮廷和寺院中均有使用，用於盛放珍貴的香丸、香粉或祭品。可與出土於陝西法門寺地下宮殿的鎏金銀器皿進行比較，該器皿形制相似，底部飾有蓮花苞狀鈕和波浪紋飾。相關圖示見韓維和克里斯蒂安·戴迪耶合著的《中國古代黃金》（巴黎，2001年），第302-311頁，圖634和639。另見法門寺出土的一件飾有類似守護神像的長方形盒子，該圖見同一著作，第259頁，圖590。 druck bild

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