A CENTRAL TIBETAN BRONZE FIGURE OF MAHASIDDHA VIRUPA, seated in squatting posture on an antelope-skin on a lotus-base, both hands in vitarkamudra and holding a kauri-shell, his garment draped around his knees, engraved with scrolling and clouds, many body-ornaments partly inlaid with turquoise beads, his face with bulging eyes, urna, moustache, beard, elongated earlobes and his hairdress in tresses, reverse of base with some Lantsha characters, unsealed, late 16th - early 17th Century