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Description: | Bronze lotus throne for figure of the seated Buddha Sakyamuni, the historical Buddha. The throne has a disc resting on a lotus flower with four tiers of lotus petals, the bottom tier of recurved petals. It symbolises the divine birth and purity of the divine being that it supports. | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Rights holder: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Subjects: | figures (ritual & belief: representations) copper alloy | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-38107 | Go to resource |
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