The present stone sculpture of Namasangiti Manjushri (Tib. 'jam dpal mtshan brjod) can be associated stylistically with a corpus of works carried out during the Yuan dynasty (1279-1369) when the influence of Nepalese sculpture was at an all-time high in China and its environs. Compare with a gilt-bronze figure of four-armed Manjushri, dated to the last quarter of the thirteenth century, illustrated by R. Bigler, Before Yongle: Chinese and Tibeto-Chinese Buddhist Sculpture of the 13th and 14th Centuries, Zurich, 2015, p. 89, no. 20. See, also, a small Yuan-dynasty gilt-wood figure of Maitreya sold at Christie’s Paris in 2016 (Fig. 1). All three figures display similar figural proportions, treatment of the drapery and jewelry, short foliate crowns, horizontal brows and downcast eyes, and exaggerated Pala-style chignons.
Himalayan Art Resources (himalayanart.org), item no. 24420.