The bodhisattva seated in vajraparyankasana, the hand held in dhyanamudra, wearing a simple robe draped over the left shoulder leaving the right exposed, the face with a meditative expression beneath a coiffure with five-leaf diadem, all supported on a tapering rectangular throne with drapery over the front and foliate supports at the corners, engraved with an inscription reading "Da Qing Qianlong gengyin nian jingzao" (Respectfully made in the gengyin year of the Qianlong period in the Great Qing dynasty), corresponding to 1770, underside painted with Chinese numerals, later collection numbers engraved on the back of base. (H: 7 3/4 in.) Acquired in Europe in the 1970s by the grandfather of the present owner, said to have come from the collection of Robert de StrykerThence by descent
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