Description:
Tibet, 15th cent.
H. 12,8 cm
Seated in vajrasana on a lotus base with the vajra emblem to its front, his right hand in the bhumisparshamudra while the left is resting on his lap, wearing monastic cloak including a mantle covering his left shoulder fasten with a small section draped over the same shoulder in the shape of a swallow’s tail, his face displaying a serene expression with downcast eyes below arched eyebrows that run into the nose-bridge, raised urna at his forehead, elongated earlobes, the curled hairdo continuing into the ushnisha and topped with a lotus bud, unsealed.
An important private collection from southern Germany, assembled between 1956 and 2007, collection no. 200139, acquired from Lempertz Cologne, 6.6.2003, Lot 7 - Wear to gilging, slightly corroded