A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF SYAMATARA

Estimated Value:

2.500 € - 3.500 €

Schätzpreis:

6.000 €

Description:

Nepal, 14th c.
H. 12,7 cm
Seated in lalitasana on a lotus base with her right foot resting on a smaller lotus issued by the main one, her right hand lowered in varadamudra while the left is showing the vitarkamudra, a pair of lotuses flowering along her upper arms, wearing sari, jewellery partly set with turquoise beads, her face displaying a serene expression with downcast eyes below arched eyebrows, elongated earlobes with pierced circular ornaments, her hairdo combed in a tripartite chignon topped with a ratna and secured with a tiara decorated with a pair of floating ribbons, sealed
From an old southern German private collection, supplemented by inheritance in the 1950s and acquisitions in the 1960s to the 1980s - The thumb of the right hand chipped, minor wear

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