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Votive Tablet
The Mahabodhi Temple Complex, built on the site in Bodhgaya, India, where Shakyamuni attained enlightenment, inspired the throne crowned with the image of a stupa (burial mound) on this tablet.. Craftspeople and devotees make votive tablets of thin metal like this one by hammering it from the reverse side (a technique called repoussé). They then gild the front. As with less costly molded clay votive tablets, the faithful give these to temples and monasteries or leave them at important religious sites as acts of merit.
Provenance
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Alexander B. Griswold, Monkton [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [presented to the Breezewood Foundation]; Walters Art Museum, 1992, by bequest.
Exhibitions
| 1995 | Unearthly Elegance: Buddhist Art from the Griswold Collection. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. |
Geographies
Burma
(Place of Origin)
India (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 6 11/16 × W: 5 9/16 × D: 1 in. (17 × 14.1 × 2.5 cm)
Credit Line
Bequest of A. B. Griswold, 1992
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
55.98