A gilt-bronze figure of Sitatara

Description:

Tibeto-Chinese, 18th c.
H. 18,2 cm
Seated in vajrasana on a lotus base with both hands showing the vitarkamudra originally holding stems of lotuses flowering along her upper arms, wearing sari, scarf draped around her shoulders with its streamers encircling her arms while their finials fall down on the base, bejewelled, her face displaying a serene expression with downcast eyes below arched eyebrows, elongated earlobes with ear ornaments, feet, hands and forehead adorned with an eye, her hair combed in a chignon and secured with a tiara decorated with a pair of floating ribbons, resealed.
From the private collection of the German comedian, actor and singer Willy Reichert. According to the family, the object was acquired during one of Reichert’s touring engagements in the 1930s and has remained in the family ever since. Minor wear due to age; inlays missing