Gold mandala inlaid with gold filigree and turquoises and engraved with floral design

Qing Dynasty
Height: 35cm
Diameter: 17cm
Weight: 18000g

The round base is engraved with treasure flowers and interspersed with peach-shaped eight-treasure patterns of gold filigree inlaid with turquoises. The outer edge of the base is adorned with filigree works of human figurines, animals, trees, clouds, flames, the eight cold forests etc. The mandala is standing on a square base, with steps adorned with gold filigree vajra scepter patterns on each side of the base. There's a door in the middle, enshrining a Buddha inside. The finial of the mandala is a four-layered round top just like that on a Buddhist temple and there's a two-storey square pavilion with corbels at the top. The mandala is placed on a red sandalwood pedestal engraved with curling grass patterns. 

The mandala is a ritual vessel for worshiping various Buddhist gods and Bodhisattvas of Esoteric Buddhism and for studying the Esoteric Buddhism.