A SILVER-INLAID BRONZE FIGURE OF VAJRADHARA, TIBET, 15th/16th ct., seated in vajrasana on a lotus base with both hands crossed in front of his chest and holding the vajra and ghanta, wearing dhoti, its border incised with scrolling flowers, cape draped around his shoulders, its streamers encircling both arms with the finials falling over the base, bejewelled, his face displaying a serene expression with downcast silver-inlaid eyes below arched eyebrows running into his nose-bridge, urna set with a turquoise bead, elongated earlobes with circular ear rings, his hair combed in a chignon topped with a half-vajra secured with a five-leaf diadem decorated with a pair of pattras and a pair of floating ribbons, resealed - Property from an important South German private collection, bought Koller Zürich, 6.10.2001, Lot 38 - Minor traces of age