A WESTERN HIMALAYAN BRONZE FIGURE OF PADMAPANI 11TH/12TH CENTURY Standing

A WESTERN HIMALAYAN BRONZE FIGURE OF PADMAPANI 11TH/12TH CENTURY Standing, wearing a dhoti, a tall headdress and elaborate jewellery, his right hand stretched downwards in varada mudra, holding a blossom in the other, the figure with an open mandala attached to the rear of the pedestal, 18cm, 551g. Provenance: formerly in the Cheng Huan Collection. Cf. Classics of the Forbidden City, Tibetan Buddhist Sculptures, p.176, no.95 for a related figure of the Bodhisattva Padmapani.