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Lot 276

A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF POSSIBLY MANDARAVA

Estimated Value:

2.500 € - 3.500 €

Schätzpreis:

3.300 €

Description:

Tibeto-Chinese, 18th c.
H. 11,7 cm
Standing in samabhanga on a lotus base with both hands holding a hand drum decorated with a curling ribbon, wearing sari, scarf floating around her shoulders, its streamers encircling both arms and its finials curling up, bejewelled, her face displaying a serene expression with downcast eyes below arched eyebrows running into the nose-bridge, smiling lips, elongated earlobes set with pierced ornaments, her hair combed in a chignon and secured with a five-leaf tiara, resealed.
From an old southern German private collection, supplemented by inheritance in the 1950s and acquisitions in the 1960s to the 1980s - Very minor traces of age