A PARCEL-GILT BRONZE FIGURE OF A LAMA QIANLONG MARK AND PERIOD |

seated in vajraparyankasana on a double-lotus throne, the hands raised in dharmacakra mudra in front of the chest, the robes sweeping around the body in rhythmic folds and fluttering across the top of the base, the hem incised with a scrolling floral brocade, the head slightly bowed, the face framed by pendulous ears and a peaked hairline, the skin gilt and the lips, eyes, and hair painted in polychrome, the front of the base incised with a seven-character mark Da Qing Qianlong nian jing zao

Collection of Hubert Rogeau (b. 1928), acquired in Montreal in the 1950s-1970s.