The Bodhisattva Manjushri as a Youth

This source names Newar directly: "the compact, richly modeled style of Newar Buddhist bronze casting of the period, one of the earliest continuous metalworking traditions in South Asia."

The statuette's sole subject, named directly in the museum's own title and shown in his standard eternally youthful iconographic form, confirmed by the corroborating Wikipedia record.

The same statuette already shown as the historical bodhisattva's sole subject also depicts him as an object of devotion, since the two entries name the same figure under two different aspects, the historical account and the worshipped deity.