Dimensons: Height: 17 7/8" Width: 8 3/4" Depth: 8 3/4"

Chinese guilt bronze Buddha house stupa. Round opening above carved steps leading to a pagoda roof with a crescent moon shape with two symbols above it. All detailed In multiple reliefs and carved details. Precious stones scrolling around sections with a beautiful teal and red. The gilt bronze stupa cast in a hemispherical structure, the shape of the stupa represents the Buddha, adorned with many jewels on the crown set on the top of the spire; the head is the square at the spire's base; the body is the vase shape; the legs are the four steps of the lower terrace; and the base is his throne.Although not described in any Tibetan text on stupa symbolism, the stupa may represent the five purified elements:The gilt bronze square base represents earthThe hemispherical dome/vase represents waterThe conical spire represents fireThe upper lotus gilt bronze parasol and the crescent moon represents airThe sun and the dissolving point represents the element of space Underside with incised quatrefoil flori-form petal visvavajra mark surrounding the centralized DaiJi.