TIBETO-CHINESE, 16TH/17TH CENTURY

This beautiful portrait of a Tibetan teacher represents the centuries-old tradition of producing Buddhist effigies of important and beloved historical figures. A superb example of bronze work from the sixteenth/seventeenth-century, special attention has been paid to the figure's intricately incised robes, which convey an ornately patterned textile. For a work with similar incising, see a sixteenth-century sculpture from the Berti Aschmann Foundation (H. Uhlig, On the Path to Enlightenment, 1995, pp.189-190, fig.133).