A BRONZE FIGURE OF HVA SHANG

Description:

China, 17th/ 18th c.
H. 24,5 cm
Seated in maharajalilasana on a shaped plinth, his right arm resting on his raised knee holding the rosary while the left is grasping a bag, wearing various garments, including a wide-sleeved mantle draped around his bare pot-belly and chest, his face displaying a laughing expression with slit eyes below bushy eyebrows, puffy cheeks, elongated earlobes and his bald head topped with a crown cast with the five tathagatas.
Old North German private collection, assembled before 2007 - Traces of age, minor wear