Siddhaikavira Manjushri Gilt copper Nepal

Sotheby's, New York, March 25, 1999, lot 33

Good and stable overall condition. Accretion and wear to gilding throughout. Object appears darker and less reddish than in catalogue illustration.
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Standing in subtle abhanga on a circular lotus pedestal, holding the seed of a lily in the lowered right hand, and with his left in the gesture of holding a flower, adorned with a single crown leaf set against the ushnisha, simple necklace, earrings and bracelets set high on the arms and bangles at the wrist, a patterned cloth secured at the waist with a jewelled belt, and a sash tied at the thigh and falling to the lotus pedestal below.

Cf. two similar Nepalese gilt copper examples, one in the Norton Simon Foundation and one in the Zimmerman Family Collection, see von Schroeder, Indo-Tibetan Bronzes, Hong Kong, 1989, p. 321, pl. 82D and 82F. And for an example with flower intact, said to be a blue lily (nilotpala) according to the sadhanas, see von Schroeder, Buddhist Sculptures in Tibet, Hong Kong, 2001, vol. I, p. 499, pl. 160F.