A TIBETAN GILT-BRONZE AND SILVER GROUP OF THREE BODHISATTVA'S, the central silver figure, Avalokitesvara, standing in tribhanga on a separately cast lotus base on a shaped pedestal, wearing a red painted dhoti, flanked by Manjusri to his right and Vajrapani on his left on a lotus base, both with their right hands in varadamudra, the left holding a flowering lotus stem, one with pustaka, to their right a flowering lotus surmounted by a khadga and a vajra, all wearing bodhisattva ornaments, a crown and a jatamakuta, circa 13th Century

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A TIBETAN GILT-BRONZE AND SILVER GROUP OF THREE BODHISATTVA'S, the central silver figure, Avalokitesvara, standing in tribhanga on a separately cast lotus base on a shaped pedestal, wearing a red painted dhoti, flanked by Manjusri to his right and Vajrapani on his left on a lotus base, both with their right hands in varadamudra, the left holding a flowering lotus stem, one with pustaka, to their right a flowering lotus surmounted by a khadga and a vajra, all wearing bodhisattva ornaments, a crown and a jatamakuta, circa 13th Century
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