A FINE GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF BUDDHA SHAKYAMUNI, CHINA, 15th/16th ct., seated in vajrasana on a lotus base, his right hand in abhayamudra while the left is resting on his lap, wearing a monastic robe, its mantle falling in pleats around his body and leaving his right shoulder bare, his face displaying a serene expression with downcast eyes below arched eyebrows running into his nose-bridge, smiling lips, pierced elongated earlobes, his curled hair and ushnisha topped with a lotus-bud, resealed - Property from an old South German private collection, assembled prior 1986, by descent to the present owners - Etwas berieben