A PARCEL-GILT EMBOSSED COPPER FIGURE OF SYAMATARA

Description:

Tibet, 18th/ early 19th cent.
H. 36 cm
Seated in lalitasana on a lotus base with her right foot resting on a smaller lotus issued by the main one, her right hand in varadamudra while the left is showing the vitarkamudra, both hands still holding stems of lotuses originally 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, elongated earlobes with ear ornaments, her hair combed in a chignon and decorated with a floral ornament, unsealed.
Old Berlin private collection - Minor wear, attributes lost, the head slightly disformed