A rare Kashmiri or Western Tibetan silver-inlaid dark bronze figure of the crowned Buddha. 9th/10th century
Standing on a lotus base over a rectangular plinth, his right hand raised in the fear-abiding gesture and holding the tip of his robe in his left, wearing a simple and tightly fitted lower and upper monastic garment and a cape decorated with tassels in a zigzag-line and adorned with a tripartite crown with rosettes, ribbons, matching earrings, the "sun in the crescent moon" emblems, and short beaded necklace, all characteristic for that region and time. The eyes and urna inlaid with silver, the face painted with cold gold. The unsealed plinth with an inscription.
Height 22.3 cm
克什米爾或西藏西部 九/十世紀 銅鎏金佛立像
來源：德國科隆私人收藏，20世紀80/90年代購於德國科隆 Werner Köntges （1902-1997）古董商
可比：紐約大都會藝術博物館，第1970.297號 (www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/39345
) 及 Ulrich von Schroeder（著），Buddhist Sculputes in Tibet，Volume One: India & Nepal，香港2001年，第114-115頁，圖22A 和第144-145頁，圖36
Provenance
Private collection, Cologne, acquired in the 1980s/90s from the old-established antique dealer Werner Köntges (1902-1997), Cologne
Literature
Compare similar bronze figures: Acc. no. 1970.297 in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, (www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/39345
) and Ulrich von Schroeder, Buddhist Sculpures in Tibet, Volume One: India & Nepal, Hong Kong 2001, p. 114-115, pl. 22A and p. 144-145, pl. 36