A STONE STELE OF SYAMATARA

Description:

Nepal, 18th cent.
H. 34 cm
Seated in lalitasana on a lotus base with her right hand in varadamudra while the left is showing the vitarka gesture, a pair of lotuses are flowering along her upper arms, wearing sari, bejewelled, her face displaying a serene expression with almond-shaped eyes below arched eyebrows, her hair combed in a chignon secured with a tiara, head aureole behind and placed against a horse-shoe shaped flaming halo
Old European private collection, assembled according to the present owner in the 1980's - Partly chipped, traces of age, very minor restoration