A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF AMOGHADARSHIN

Description:

Tibet, 18th c.
H. 15,4 cm
Seated in vajrasana on a lotus base with his right hand raised in the abhayamudra while the left is resting on his lap, wearing monastic garment showing a small section draped over his left shoulder in the shape of a swallow’s tail, his cold-gilded face displaying a serene expression with downcast eyes below arched eyebrows, smiling lips, elongated earlobes, his blue coloured hairdo continuing into the ushnisha and topped with a lotus bud, partly sealed.
C 34, pp. 82 and 83
From an old and important German private collection, collected between 1950 and 1987, collection no. C34
Published: U. Toyka-Fuong, Ikonographie und Symbolik des tibetischen Buddhismus, Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 1987, C 34, pp. 82/ 83