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Lot 34
A FINE BRONZE FIGURE OF SITATARA
Estimated Value:
1.500 € - 2.500 €
Schätzpreis:
2.400 €
Description:
Tibet, 18th c.H. 12,8 cm
Seated in vajrasana on a lotus-base with her right hand lowered in varadamudra while the left is showing the vitarkamudra, both hands incised with an eye alike her foot-soles, holding stems of lotuses flowering along her arms, wearing sari, bejewelled, her face displaying a serene expression with downcast eyes below arched eyebrows, another eye incised at her fore-head, smiling lips, elongated earlobes with large ear-ornaments, her hair combed in a chignon topped with a ratna and secured with a tiara, traces of cold-gilding and blue pigments, resealed.
Important German private collection, assembled in the 1970s and 80s, partly acquired by Schoettle East Asian Art, Stuttgart
Minor wear, traces of age
