Description: Dalai Lama. Tibet / China. Copper-bronze sculpture. Cold gold and polychrome painting. Height 23 cm (9.1"). Weight 1854 g. From North German private collection. The hands of the Gelugpa teacher holding a vajra and a bell. Seated on a lotus throne. Wearing the typical pointed hat and a multi-part robe of a Buddhist monk. Bottom covered with copper consecration plate with seal. Slight signs of age and wear. Very rare and finely casted figure. This figure probably belongs together with the following two catalog numbers.