A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF A LAMA

Description:

Tibet, 18th c.
H. 16 cm
Seated with legs crossed on a double cushion with both hands resting on his lap in dhyanamudra, wearing monastic garment including an underskirt and a mantle covering both shoulders, his face displaying a serene expression with downcast eyes below arched eyebrows that run into the nose-bridge, smiling lips and shaven head, sealed.
Old South German private collection, assembled before 2007 - Wear, traces of age