RARE STATUE D'USHNISHAVIJAYA EN BRONZE ET REPOUSSÉ PARTIELLEMENT DORÉ

The embellishment of the jewellery and the treatment of the celestial scarf are similar to that on a figure of Manjusri, dating to the 17th/first half of 18th century, illustrated in On the Path to Enlightenment, The Berti Aschmann Foundation of Tibetan Art at the Museum Rietberg Zurich, 1995, p. 114, no. 65. Compare also two other examples in the Folkens Museum Etnografiska, Stockholm, illustrated in Wisdom and Compassion - The Sacred Art of Tibet, Thames and Hudson, 1991, pp. 144-145, nos. 35-36.