Description:
Tibet, 18th cent.
H. 17,4 cm
Standing in samabhanga on a separate cast lotus base, his eight arms radiating around his body with the principle hands in anjalimudra, the other hands with the prescribed attributes or gestures, wearing dhoti, cape draped around his shoulders, its streamers encircling his arms and their finials curling up, antelope-upavita, bejewelled, his eleven-faced head displaying various expressions and topped with the head of Buddha Amitabha, unsealed.
An important private collection from southern Germany, assembled between 1956 and 2007, collection no. 20064 - Minor wear, attributes partly lost, slightly chipped