A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF SYAMATARA

Description:

Tibet, 18th/ early 19th cent.
H. 19.5 cm
Seated in lalitasana on a lotus base with her right foot supported by a smaller one issued by the main base, her right hand showing the varadamudra while the left the vitarkamudra and holding the stem of a lotus flowering along her left shoulder, 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 and secured with a an elaborate worked out crown, unsealed.
European private collection - Minor wear and traces of age, attribute lost