A LARGE THANGKA DEPICTING SYAMATARA

Description:

Tibet, 19th cent.
121x174 (130 x182) cm, R.
The painting is showing the Green Tara or Syamatara in the centre seated in lalitasana on a lotus base with her right hand lowered in the varadamudra while the left is raised in the vitarkamudra, both holding stems of lotuses flowering along her upper arms, wearing sari, scarf, bejewelled, her face displaying a serene expression with downcast eyes below arched eyebrows, smiling lips, her hair combed in a chignon secured with a rich and elaborate tiara, head and body halo behind studded with jewels, above her is placed the red Amitabha holding the alms bowl, surrounded by a myriad of her emanations all around and symmetrically divided over nine horizontal rows, in frame.
Old German private collection, assembled since the 1950s - On the reverse with a storage label of the 2nd West German Art Fair Cologne-Dusseldorf, no. 077, 13 to 21 March 1971 - Wear, traces of age, restorations