AN IMPORTANT AND RARE GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF MAHASTHAMAPRAPTA, China, late Ming dynasty, seated in vajrasana on a separate cast lotus base, both hands in a form of vitarkamudra, wearing various garments including a wide-sleeved mantle, bejewelled, his face displaying a serene expression with downcast eyes below arched eyebrows, aquiline nose, smiling lips, elongated earlobes decorated with large ear-ornaments, his hair combed in a chignon topped with a lotus supporting a ratna, secured with an elaborate tiara set with a kamandalu to the front, decorated with a pair of pattras and floating ribbons - Property from the collection of Friedrich and Ruth Boss, assembled in China between 1911 and 1938 - Wear to gilding, very slightly chipped Feine und große vergoldete Bronze des Mahasthamaprapta CHINA, späte Ming-Dynastie H. 80 cm Auf einem Lotos sitzend dargestellt. Mahasthamaprapta, ist einer der acht großen Bodhisattva, einer der zwei begleitenden Bodhisattva von Amithaba, was durch die Kanne in seiner Krone symbolisiert wird. Reste von Vergoldung. Provenienz: Aus der Sammlung von Friedrich und Ruth Boss, zwischen 1911 und 1938 in China gesammelt - Etwas berieben, wenige kleine Bestoßungen