A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF SITATARA

Description:

Tibeto-Chinese, 18th c.
H. 17,3 cm
Seated in vajrasana on a lotus-base with both hands grasping stems of lotuses flowering along each shoulder, wearing sari, scarf draped around her shoulders with its streamers encircling her arms, bejewelled, her face displaying a serene expression with downcast eyes below arched eyebrows running into the nose-bridge, vertical eye placed on her forehead, elongated earlobes with large earplugs, her hair combed in a chignon topped with a ratna and secured with a tiara, resealed.
Old Berlin private collection, assembled before 1990
Very minor wear