Description:
Tibet, 16th cent.
H. 13,3 cm
Seated in vajrasana on a lotus base with his right hand lowered in the bhumisparshamudra while the left is resting on his lap, wearing monastic garment including underskirt and mantle covering both shoulders, his cold-gilded face displaying a serene expression with downcast eyes below arched eyebrows that run into the nose-bridge, painted facial details, the curled hairdo continuing into the ushnisha and topped with the lotus bud, unsealed.
An important private collection from southern Germany, assembled between 1956 and 2007, collection no. 20124, acquired from Lempertz Cologne, 7.6.2002, Lot 78 - Minor wear and traces of age