H:20.4cmA Fine Tibetan Gilt Bronze Portrait Figure of an Abbot, 17th/18th Centuryforming a vivid portrayal, with forceful features, the shrewd eyes picked out in black line on white, and pronounced eyebrows beneath the tall conical hat; he wears a richly chased robe, and bears a vajra in his right hand, which is raised in the gesture of argumentation, as he sits in padmasanana on a finely ornamented rectangular double cushion covered by a blanket, the base with extensive remains of cold painted bodhisattva decoration, wood standGood condition, with minor wear to gilding and to the cold colouring on the face. The rare painted stucco bodhisattva decoration on the base is very flaked