Description:
China, 15th/ 16th cent.
H. 32,5 cm
Seated in vajrasana with his right hand lowered in the bhumisparshamudra while the left is resting on his lap, wearing monastic garment including an underskirt fastened around his waist with a ribbon knotted to the front and a wide-sleeved mantle covering both shoulders, its borders cast with bands of scrolling tendrils, his face displaying a serene expression with downcast eyes below arched eyebrows that run into his nose-bridge, smiling lips, elongated earlobes, his curled hairdo continuing into a low ushnisha and decorated to the front with the ratna-emblem.
Old German private collection - Minor traces of age, very slightly chipped