The present gilt-bronze, very finely cast and elegantly modeled, demonstrates the refinement of Tibetan and Chinese Buddhist sculpture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The bodhisattva, Padmapani Lokeshvara, a form of Avalokiteshvara (known in China as Guanyin) is rendered in an androgynous manner, perhaps reflecting the influence of the Chinese tradition, where Guanyin is represented as female. The figure sits on a double-lotus base with crisp, individualized petals, and the hands and feet are deftly cast. The somewhat robust body proportions, elegantly tilted face, and the long hair hanging down the center of the back, also indicate the possible influence of seventeenth-century Mongolian gilt-bronzes; compare the previously mentioned features with a Mongolian gilt-bronze figure of Tara in the Zanabazar style, sold at Christie’s New York on 19 March 2013, lot 331.