Tibetan Painted Altar Cabinet - Ca 1900 Style - Tianqiuping 'Bottle' Vases where huts and houses carried

where huts and houses carried the same pitched roof structure

78 x 10 x 160 (wxdxh cms)

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Tibetan Painted Altar Cabinet - Ca 1900 Style - Tianqiuping 'Bottle' Vases where huts and houses carriedThis painted cabinet is from Central Tibet and dates to the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century circa 1900. All hand painted using mineral pigments, the central panels feature some of the 'Eight Auspicious Substances' flanked by vases of flowers. Top left: The Mirror (me long) represents sight and being able to see one's self clearly. In Buddhism, the mirror is the symbol of emptiness & pure consciousness reflecting all