Description The bell-shaped vessel with a flaring rim decorated with the Eight Buddhist Emblems in shaped panels on an engraved ground, the stem elaborately worked with lappets and incised floral motifs. Chiseled and in repoussé, with inset turquoise beads. Butter lamps are traditionally placed on the altar during ceremonies, filled with clarified (yak) butter or ghee and lit with a cloth wick. They are a common feature of Tibetan Buddhist temples and monasteries throughout the Himalayas.尺寸_1: Dimensions Height 19.2 cm出处: Provenance Private collection, Berlin文献: Literature Compare a very similar butter lamp in Art Lamaïque, exposition organisée en collaboration avec la Nepalese Belgian Friendship, Brussels 1975, no. 138