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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.

Bronze Buddhist Shrine with Seated Buddha

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

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