A GILT COPPER ALLOY FIGURE DEPICTING THE FIRST PANCHEN LAMA, LOBZANG CHOKYI GYALTSEN Tibet, 17th/18th Century

seated in dhyanasana with the left hand in samadhi mudra and the right hand in bhumisparsha mudra, with shorn pate and elegant facial features, wrapped in voluminous monastic winter robes atop a long sleeved jacket worn only on the right arm in the Tibetan fashion, with an elaborate dhonka underneath, seated on a double-plinthed throne

Gerard Hawthorn Oriental Art, 27 March 1998. 

Wear to gilding and minor accretion overall. Left hand accoutrement now missing. Base plate now missing.
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Himalayan Art Resources item no. 12935