A FINE BRONZE FIGURE OF SYAMATARA

Description:

Tibet, late 15th c.
H. 19 cm
Seated in lalitasana on a lotus base with her right foot supported by a lotus flower issued by the base, her right hand lowered in varadamudra while the left is raised in a form of vitarkamudra, each hand holding the stem of a lotus flowering along her upper arms, wearing sari falling in wide folds over her legs, bejewelled, her face displaying a serene expression with downcast eyes below arched eyebrows running into the nose-bridge, raised vertical urna at her forehead, smiling lips, elongated earlobes with ear ornaments, her blue coloured hair combed in a chignon with some tresses falling down her shoulders, topped with a ratna, secured with a five-leaf tiara decorated with a pair of pattras and floating ribbons, resealed.
South german private collection, assembled in the 1990s
Wear, very slightly chipped