A BRONZE FIGURE OF VAIROCANA FROM THE BURKHART COLLECTION

Description:

Tibet, 14th c.
H. 27 cm
Seated in vajrasana on a lotus base with both hands showing the bodhyagrimudra, wearing diaphanous dhoti, scarf floating around his shoulders, bejewelled, his cold-gilded face displaying a serene expression with downcast eyes below arched eyebrows that run into the nose-bridge, raised urna at his forehead, red coloured lips, elongated earlobes with pierced ear plugs, his blue coloured hairdo combed in a chignon topped with the ratna emblem and secured with a five-leaf tiara decorated with a pair of pattras, resealed
Property from the Burkhart collection of Tibetan and Himalayan Art - Hanspeter Burkhart, a Swiss laywer, acquired in Zug 1998 - European private collection
Published: Christie's New York, 18.9.2011, lot 332 - Very minor damages and small old repairs