A Tibetan bronze Kadam Stupa (Chorten), 13th-15th century, the reliquary with a lotus bud finial with an even dark brown-black patina., 20.8 cm high. Reference: see Barbara Lipton, Treasures of Tibetan Art: Collections of the Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art, 1996, cat. No. 5, p. 46 for a similar example. Provenance: from the Collection of Robert Bleakley, former Chairman of Sotheby's Australia