AN OVER-LIFE SIZE GILT-BRONZE HEAD OF A DEITY

Description:

Tibet, ca. 18th cent.
H. 36 cm
The large head is cast with a serene facial expression displaying downcast eyes below arched eyebrows that run into the nose bridge, smiling lips, elongated earlobes, his hair originally combed in a chignon with a pair of tresses falling down along the backside of his ears and secured with a tiara cast with a band of a scrolling tendril design, traces of blue colour.
Old German private collection - Very minor damages due to age and traces of age