An Important Large Bronze Figure of Padmapani
Western Tibet, late 11th/early 12th Century
Standing with his legs slightly splayed on a shaped plinth, his right hand raised in abhaya mudra and his left lowered holding the stem of a lotus flower rising from the base to his left shoulder, wearing a short dhoti with folds undulating between his legs and finely incised with floral bands, an antelope skin strapped across his shoulder and knotted at his chest and a scarf extending down to his ankles, his face with a benign expression with large almond-shaped eyes inlaid in silver beneath incised arched brows and silver urna, the bow-shaped mouth inlaid in copper, with a trefoil crown centered by an image of Amitabha, in a rich deep brown patina
22 in. (56 cm.) high
An Important Large Bronze Figure of Padmapani
Western Tibet, late 11th/early 12th Century
Standing with his legs slightly splayed on a shaped plinth, his right hand raised in abhaya mudra and his left lowered holding the stem of a lotus flower rising from the base to his left shoulder, wearing a short dhoti with folds undulating between his legs and finely incised with floral bands, an antelope skin strapped across his shoulder and knotted at his chest and a scarf extending down to his ankles, his face with a benign expression with large almond-shaped eyes inlaid in silver beneath incised arched brows and silver urna, the bow-shaped mouth inlaid in copper, with a trefoil crown centered by an image of Amitabha, in a rich deep brown patina
22 in. (56 cm.) high
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