DALI KINGDOM, 12TH CENTURY

Compare to a similar bronze kila but depicting a single-faced bodhisattva, also wearing a double vajra crown and hands in the vairocana mudra, excavated from the pagoda of Chongsheng Temple in Yunnan, currently in the Yunnan Provincial Museum Collection, illustrated in Li Kunsheng, The Complete Works of Yunnan National Fine Arts: The Sculpture and Painting Arts of Nanzhao and Dali Kingdoms, Kunming, 1999, no. 298.