A BRONZE FIGURE OF AMITAYUS

Description:

Tibet, 14th cent.
H. 14,2 cm
Seated in vajrasana on a lotus base with both hands resting on his lap in dhyanamudra supporting the kalasha set with a turquoise bead, wearing dhoti, scarf floating around his shoulders, jewellery set with turquoise beads, 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, smiling lips, elongated earlobes decorated with ear-ornaments, his hair combed in a chignon topped with the ratna-emblem and secured with a tiara decorated with a pair of pattras, resealed
Old German private collection - Minor traces of age, upper band with short break, one of the lower bands replaced