AN INSCRIBED GILT-BRONZE BUDDHA QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD

the deity seated in dhyanasana on a double lotus base, his loose robes falling from the left shoulder leaving the chest bare, both hands raised in dharmachakra mudra (teaching gesture), the face with gentle smile and framed by long pendulous ears and hair curled into tight 'knots' surmounted by an ushnisha below a gilt cintamani pearl, the base with four-character inscription na ta yen fuo