the guru seated on a lotus throne with the right foot slightly extended, wearing the peaked cap adorned with the sun and moon and inlaid with semi-precious stones, with pendulous earrings and necklace also inlaid with semi-precious stones, holding a kalasha in the left hand incised with the seed syllable HRI, wearing voluminous outer and inner robes secured at the waist with a sash



Himalayan Art Resources item no. 13120.

Rudi Oriental Arts, New York City, 1960s.

Wear and accretion overall. With losses to feather finial at top of cap and ritual khatvanga as evidenced by lug near proper left elbow. Some cracking at edge of robe near proper right foot. With surface abrasions and scattered denting throughout. Repousse hair elements slightly loose.
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