A small inscribed gilt-bronze figure of Padmapani Liu Song dynasty, inscribed with a date corresponding to 474 | 劉宋元徽二年 鎏金銅蓮華手觀音立像

A small inscribed gilt-bronze figure of Padmapani 

Liu Song dynasty, inscribed with a date corresponding to 474

劉宋元徽二年 鎏金銅蓮華手觀音立像

finely cast in the form of the Bodhisattva Padmapani, an emanation of Avalokiteshvara, standing in tribhanga atop a rectangular pedestal, the face framed by a slender and pointed headpiece, both of which lean against a plain, flame-shaped mandorla with a two-tiered columnar apex topped off by a cintamani jewel finial, the raised right hand holds a willow branch while the left hand holds an amphora, the incised inscription on the reverse stating that the figure was donated by Jiang Chong in the second year of the Yuanhui reign

銘文：

元徽二年三月廿一日江冲像一區供養

h. 6.4 cm