17th Century Seated in vajrasana with the hands held in dhyanamudra, with wide shoulders and relatively small but naturalistically modelled head with a soft benevolent expression, with high arching brows above heavy-lidded eyes and long triangular nose above a small but full fleshy mouth, his hair tightly knotted and rising to a small domed usnisa, large pendulous ears frame the head, his robes draped over one shoulder, the other exposed, the hems delicately cast and incised with scrolling lotus, a pleated inner garment decorated with three round jewels in the Chintamani pattern, which also falls in folds between his legs, his fifth large toe on each up-turned foot slightly splayed from the other grouped toes, seated on a double lotus base cast with cloud motifs in the early Ming dynasty style beneath a beaded edge, all under a thick gilding, no base panel. 6 1/2in (16.5cm) high