A gilt-lacquered bronze figure of a lama

Description:

Tibeto-Chinese, 18th cent.
H. 23 cm/ 5,5 cm
Seated in vajrasana on a lotus base with the hand in dharmacakramudra, holding stems of lotuses originally flowering along his upper arms, wearing monastic robe including an underskirt and a mantle covering both shoulders, his cold-gilded face displaying a serene expression with downcast eyes below arched eyebrows that run into his nose-bridge, smiling lips, painted facial details and his head topped with the specific bonnet, resealed, further a bronze of Padmasambhava.
From the collection of the chemist, engineer and director of Merck & Co. Heinrich Georg Johann Harms (3 Sept. 1906-28 June 1975) and his wife Eva Harms (10 Nov. 1905-13 Oct. 1998), largely collected in Shanghai between 1935 and 1942 - Slightly chipped, signs of age, attributes partly lost