A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF SITATARA

Description:

Tibet, late 18th/ early 19th cent.
H. 20 cm
Seated in vajrasana on a lotus base with her right hand in varadamudra while the left is raised in the vitarkamudra holding a lotus flowering along her upper left arm, both feet and hand palms incised with an eye, wearing sari, bejewelled, her face displaying a serene expression with downcast eyes, her forehead with incised eye, her blue coloured hair combed in a chignon and secured with a tiara, unsealed.
Old Southern German private collection - Minor traces of age, attributes partly lost