Description: Dalai Lama. Tibet / China. Copper-bronze sculpture. Cold gold and polychrome painting. Cold gold and polychrome painting. Height 23 cm (9.1"). Weight 1904 g. From North German private collection. The hands of the Gelugpa teacher holding a vajra and a bell and showing an uncommon form of the vajrahumkara mudra, in which the little fingers of the hands are entangled. 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 previous and the following catalog number.