A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF SYAMATARA ON A LOTUS

Description:

Tibeto-Chinese, early 18th c.
H. 15,7 cm
Seated in lalitasana on a lotus base with her right foot supported by a smaller lotus issued from the main one, both hands in vitarkamudra holding stems of lotuses flowering along her upper arms, wearing sari, scarf draped around her shoulders, bejewelled, her face displaying a serene expression with downcast eyes below arched eyebrows that run into the nose-bridge, elongated earlobes with ear ornaments, her hair combed in a chignon topped with a ratna and secured with a five-leaf tiara, traces of pigments, unsealed.
Former old German private collection, acquired prior to 2007