Description: Bodhisattva Maitreya. Tibet / Nepal. Old bronze Buddha figure. Height 24.5 cm (9.7”). Weight 1244 g. From German private collection. The future Buddha in his Bodhisattva appearance. His lowered hands showing the cincihna mudra, his right hand holding the stem of a long lotus flower. The wheel of teaching (dharma chakra) standing on its blossom. Standing in tribhanga on a lotus pedestal. Wearing the multi-leaved crown, the long scarf as well as the royal clothes and jewelry of an enlightened Buddhist Bodhisattva. Slight signs of age.