A BRONZE FIGURE OF PADMASAMBHAVA

Description:

Tibet, 16. Jh.
H. 17,5 cm
Seated in vajrasana on a lotus-base with his hands holding the vajra and the blood-filled kapala, wearing various garments including a mantle decorated with stylized flowe-rheads, his face displaying a severe expression with open eyes below arched eyebrows running into the nose-bridge, elongated earlobes with large ear-ornaments and his head topped with the specific bonnet, unsealed.
From the collection of Gerd-Wolfgang Essen (1930-2007), assembled between the 1950s and 1980s
Very slightly chipped, minor wear