A gilt-bronze figure of a seated Buddha Ming dynasty, 16th/17th century | 明十六/十七世紀 鎏金銅佛坐像

See a similar figure incised with an inscription from the 20th year of the Wanli reign (1592), in the Chang Foundation, Taipei, and illustrated in Buddhist Images in Gilt Metal, Taipei, 1993, pl. 6. Compare a few related figures also seated in vajrasana and with hands lowered together in dhyanamudra: one seated on a double lotus petal base, sold as part of a group at Christie’s London, 9th December 1985, lot 208; and two others incised with a svastika symbol on his chest, but lacking the lotus base, in the Chang Foundation, op.cit., pls 9-10.