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Green patinated bronze Buddhist shrine with a seated Buddha in an arched niche, tiered spire, and small figures on the base.

Buddhist Shrine

A green-patinated bronze shrine rises in tiered stages, its tall spire topped by a slender finial above a bulbous lotus-like body. A seated Buddha in meditation pose sits within an arched niche framed by ornamental flame-like elements, above a tiered octagonal base decorated with small seated figures.

Artist
Unknown
Date
13th century
Medium
Bronze
Source
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Size
2755 × 4000 px
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Public domain · The Metropolitan Museum of Art releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1300).
Rights checked 2026-11-04 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (The Met Open Access, isPublicDomain=true)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Enid A. Haupt, 1993

Español: Santuario budista de bronce con Buda sentado

Un santuario de bronce con pátina verde se eleva en niveles escalonados, con una alta espiga coronada por un remate delgado sobre un cuerpo abultado con forma de loto. Un Buda sentado en posición de meditación ocupa un nicho en arco, enmarcado por elementos ornamentales como llamas, sobre una base octogonal escalonada decorada con pequeñas figuras sentadas.

Português: Santuário budista de bronze com Buda sentado

Um santuário de bronze com patina verde ergue-se em níveis escalonados, com uma alta espira coroada por um remate delgado acima de um corpo bulboso em forma de lótus. Um Buda sentado em postura de meditação ocupa um nicho em arco, emoldurado por elementos ornamentais em forma de chamas, sobre uma base octogonal escalonada decorada com pequenas figuras sentadas.

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