A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF AMITAYUS, QING DINASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD, NUMBERED INSIDE Minor wear and losses on surface. 20 cm high, 12 cm wide Fine cast and chased gilt bronze sculpture of Amitayus on a rectangular stool with decorated scrollwork legs, seated in vajrasana, the hands in dhyanamudra, the hair piled in high knot and adorned with a five-leaf high diadem, earring, a necklace, with bracelets on the arms and wrists, the long robes draped in folds and falling pendent over the edge of the stool, and framed by a separate flaming mandorla.