A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF PROBABLY MANDARAVA

Description:

Tibet, 18th/ 19th c.
H. 20 cm
Seated in lalitasana on a separate embossed lotus-base, her right hand showing the vitarkamudra while the left is raised and supporting a bowl, wearing sari, cape draped around her shoulders, bejewelled, her face displaying a severe expression with open eyes below arched eyebrows, raised urna at her forehead, elongated earlobes with large ear-ornaments, her blue coloured hair combed in a chignon and secured with a tiara, resealed.
Old Munich private collection, collected before 2000.
Slightly chipped, minor wear