Description
A TIBETAN PARCEL-GILT FIGURE OF TSONGKAPA
16TH CENTURY
Wearing a monk's robes and a tall cap, seated in vajraparyankasana on a double lotus base with hands in dharmachakra mudra, with lotus flowers at each shoulder supporting his attributes: the sword of knowledge and the book of wisdom, all raised on a plinth with two stylised lions, the base sealed, 9cm, 282g.
Provenance: formerly in the Cheng Huan Collection.
Cf. The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Buddhist Statues of Tibet, VIX, p.191, no.182 and p.204, no194 for related examples of the Tsongkapa.
