A FINE GILT-BRONZE FIGURINE OF THE MAHASIDDHA VIRUPA, TIBET, 16th ct., seated in rajalilasana on a cushion finely engraved with scrolling tendrils, covered with an antelope-skin, his right hand raised in the tarjanimudra while the left is supporting the blood-filled kapala, wearing skirt, yogapatta band around right knee and middle, jewellery inlaid with turquoise beads, his cold-gilded face displaying a severe expression with protruding eyes, hooked nose, his blue coloured hair combed in a chignon and secured with a tiara set with some turquoise beads, with inventory number BT 34, sealed - Very minor wear