A SINO-TIBETAN BRONZE SEATED LAMA
During the reign of the Qianlong Emperor, who was himself a fervent Buddhist devotee, the production of Buddhist images, paintings, and ritual items, drastically increased to fill the large numbers of temples and religious halls built during this period. In some temples, such as the Fanhua Lou at the Forbidden City, the entirety of the Buddhist pantheon, numbering in the several hundreds of deities and important personages, were depicted sculpturally in gilt-bronze. Seated on a double lotus base, the right hand raised in vitarkamudra and the left held in the lap, dressed in heavy robes with foliate-patterned hems, the face with jovial expression below close-cropped hair.
Dimension: L. 24.5 cm. W. 15.5 cm. H. 34.5 cm. Weight 6360 grams.

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