A FINE BRONZE FIGURE OF VIRUPAKSHA, TIBET, 18th ct., seated with his prominent belly in relaxed posture on a gilt-bronze embossed double cushion covered with a rug, both hands in the tarjanimudra, his left holding additionally the stem of a lotus supporting the kundika, wearing armour secured with a ribbon, tunic, skirt, boots, magic mirror attached to chains fastened around his neck, his cold-gilded face displaying a severe expression with protruding eyes below bushy eyebrows, third eye, broad nose, beard framing his chin, painted facial details, his head topped with a helmet and decorated to the front with a five-leaf skull tiara, with inventory number BT 17, unsealed - Base partly slightly disformed, head dress with losses