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Sonam Tsemo (1142-1182)16th century

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Artist or Maker: Unknown
Title: Sonam Tsemo (1142-1182)
Place Made: Eastern Tibet, a Sakyapa Monastery
Date Made: 16th century
Medium: Copper alloy inlaid with silver and copper and with traces of paint
Dimensions: 7 1/4 x 5 1/2 x 4 3/16 in. (18.4 x 13.97 x 10.63 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Doris and Ed Wiener
Accession Number: M.72.108.3
Classification: Sculpture
Collecting Area: South and Southeast Asian Art
Selected Bibliography: Pal, Pratapaditya. Art of Tibet. Los Angeles; Berkeley, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; University of California Press, 1983.
Fisher, Robert E. Art of Tibet. London: Thames and Hudson, 1997.
Reedy, Chandra L. Himalayan Bronzes: Technology, Style and Choices. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1997.
Rhie, Marylin M. and Robert A.F. Thurman. Wisdom and Compassion: The Sacred Art of Tibet. New York: Tibet House, 1991.
Fisher, Robert E. Mystics and Mandalas: Bronzes and Paintings of Tibet and Nepal. Redlands, CA: University of Redlands, 1974.
Pal, Pratapaditya. Art of Tibet. Expanded edition. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1990.