A GILT-COPPER EMBOSSED FIGURE OF SITATARA

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2.500 € - 3.500 €

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Description:

Tibet, 19th c.
H. 27,2 cm
Seated in vajrasana on a lotus base with the right hand showing varadamudra while the left the vitarkamudra, wearing sari, bejewelled, her cold-gilded face displaying a serene expression with downcast eyes below arched eyebrows running into the nose-bridge, painted facial details, elongated earlobes with ear ornaments set with turquoise beads, her blue coloured hairdo combed in a chignon topped with a ratna and secured with an elaborate tiara decorated with various semi-precious stones, unsealed
C 82, pp. 204 and 205
From an old and important German private collection, collected between 1950 and 1987, collection number C 82
Published: U. Toyka-Fuong, Ikonographie und Symbolik des tibetischen Buddhismus, Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 1987, C 82, pp. 204 and 205 - Attributes partly lost, traces of age, minor wear

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