An Impeiral Chinese Gilt-lacquered Famille Rose Buddhist StupaThe shrine is superbly modelled and enamelled against a sapphire blue ground with stylised lotus blooms borne on leafy meandering scrolls below monster-masks linked by beaded chains, surmounted by a lotus-lappet pedestal supporting a set of thirteen graduated Buddhist umbrellas, each tier with a narrow floral band, set atop with a skirted cap with a ribboned Buddhist emblem of the vase, the stupa supported on a square base decorated with bands of lappets and floral scrolls on a white and iron red ground W:45CM H:20CM