A FINE AND RARE PARCEL GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF A MAHASIDDHA, TIBET, 18th ct. or earlier, seated with legs crossed on a lotus base with both hands in vitarkamudra, wearing dhoti engraved with flower-heads, band draped across his chest and a double stringed upavita, his face displaying a serene expression with downcast eyes below arched eyebrows running into his nose-bridge, his hair combed in a jatamakuta topped with a lotus and decorated with a small floral wreath, unsealed - Property from a European private collection, collected prior 2007 - Cf. A similar figur inlaid with silver and gold from the Sporer collection, sold Christie's New York 15.9.2015, Lot 40, For further comparison, see two earlier works; the first, a 12th century seated Vajrapani from Southern Tibet (P. Pal, Tibet: Tradition and Change, 1997, p.101, pl.50). The second, a bodhisattva at the Newark Museum of Art (V. Reynolds, From the Sacred Realm: Treasures of Tibetan Art from the Newark Museum, 1999, p.224, pl.128) - Minor wear to gilding, mandorla lost Feine feuervergoldete Bronze eines Mahasiddha auf einem Lotos TIBET, 18.Jh. oder früher H. 18 cm Provenienz: Aus einer europäischen Privatsammlung, vor 2007 gesammelt - Vergoldung etwas berieben, Mandorla verloren