CHINESE TEMPLE DISCIPLES DISPLAY - QUING DYNASTY

Chinese temples are religious structures that are an important part of China's Buddhist heritage and culture. They are typically built in the traditional Chinese architectural style and are often adorned with intricate carvings, paintings, and sculptures. Many of these temples date back centuries and are considered to be important cultural landmarks. This superb Chinese Mother of Pearl Temple Disciples display may date back to the early 1900's or even sometime earlier. This period in time is known as the Quing Dynasty in China. The inner display is a diorama of temple disciples in a worship setting. The inner display has intricate carvings, paintings, and sculptures. A temple disciple is worshiping in a Chinese temple. All of the materials in this diorama display are various mother of pearl stones in colors of white, beige, gold, silver, and green. All of the stones are intricately hand carved. The diorama is enclosed behind clear glass. The wood box is attached to a wood picture frame with mother of pearl stones. The picture frame has intricate carvings that are white, silver, gold, green and beige mother of pearl stones. The outer corners, center sides, bottom, and top of the picture frame as mother of pearl temple carvings that appear to be white, beige and silver in color. e diorama is approximately 3.25 in by 3.25 inches. The height of the top of the picture frame to the bottom center of the picture frame is approximately 8 inches.