A LARGE GILT-BRONZE VOTIVE FIGURE OF MAITREYA

Maitreya standing sturdily on a tapering base, against a mandorla bordered with ferocious flaming swirls and cast in low relief with three smaller seated images of Buddha, the main standing figure depicted with the right hand raised in abhaya mudra and the left in varada mudra, rendered dressed in long flowing robes cascading in voluminous folds over the arms and lower body and tied with a knot near the chest, the soft serene countenance surmounted by a domed ushnisha and framed by a wide halo cast in low relief on the mandorla.