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Khedrup Gompo Senge Copper alloy Tibet
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
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Description
- Khedrup Gompo Senge
- Copper alloy
- height 5 1/8 in. (12.9 cm.)
The corpulent lama dressed in finely incised robes with shallow relief textile designs, some with inlaid copper, seated on a lotus pedestal inscribed with a lhantsa invocation, and a Tibetan inscription inviting blessing to those that bow with devotion at the feet of Khedrup Gompo Senge.
Catalogue Note
Compare another fifteenth or sixteenth century image of the lama offered at Sotheby’s New York, September 21, 2001, lot 19, and compare the robes cut in shallow relief with a bronze of Thangthong Gyalpo in the Nyingjei Lam Collection; see Pal, 2003, pp. 240-1, pl. 157.