A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF BUDDHA SHAKYAMUNI, Nepal, 17th/18th ct., seated in vajrasana on a separate cast lotus base with both hands in dharmacakramudra, wearing pleated monastic robe, its border incised with interlinked flower-heads, his cold-gilded face displaying a serene expression with downcast eyes below arched eyebrows, urna, elongated earlobes, blue coloured hair and ushnisha topped with a lotus-bud, unsealed - Property from a South German private collection, assembled between 1970 and 2010 - Minor wear, base plinth lost, two short breaks to lotos