A fine and large rare gilt copper figure of Aksobhya

A fine and large rare gilt copper figure of Aksobhya, seated in dhyanasana, a vajra lying in front of him on his lotus throne, his hands in bhumisparsa and dhyanamudra, his hair with blue pigment and his lips and the flowerhead he touches with his right hand with red pigment, 15th/16th century, 36cm. The detail of Aksobhya's middle finger touching a flower is unusual on figures of this type, but is a detail echoed in a similar bronze in the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of the Treasures of the Palace Museum, vol. 60, Buddhist Statues of Tibet, no. 153.