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Lot 131
A BRONZE FIGURE OF SYAMATARA
Estimated Value:
1.800 € - 2.500 €
Schätzpreis:
2.000 €
Description:
Tibet, 14th/ 15th c.H. 12 cm
Seated in lalitasana on a lotus base with her right foot supported by a smaller lotus issued from the main base, both hands in vitarkamudra originally holding the stems of lotuses flowering along her upper arms, wearing sari, scarf floating around her head with its streamers encircling both arms and its finials falling on the base, bejewelled, her face displaying a serene expression with downcast eyes below arched eyebrows, urna at her forehead, elongated earlobes with floral-shaped ornaments, her hair combed in a chignon with pair of tresses falling down her shoulders and secured with a five-leaf tiara decorated with a pair of floating ribbons and pattras, traces of gilt- and red-lacquer, resealed.
From an old southern German private collection, supplemented by inheritance in the 1950s and acquisitions in the 1960s to the 1980s - Wear, stone inlays lost
