A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF TSONGKHAPA 17TH CENTURY |

seated in vajraparyanakasana on a double lotus pedestal, the hands held in dharmacakra mudra, the head slightly bowed, wearing a robe with a brocade border and flanked by two upright stalks of stylized lotus bearing a book and sword, identifying the figure as an earthly incarnation of Manjushri

Collection of Hubert Rogeau (b. 1928), acquired in Montreal in the 1950s-1970s.