21st Sep, 2024 10:00

Auction 21

 
  Lot 72
 
Lot 72 - SEATED REST GILT AND LACQUERED BRONZE TARA NEPAL 15TH CENTURY

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SEATED REST GILT AND LACQUERED BRONZE TARA NEPAL 15TH CENTURY

Dimensions: Height 12,5 cm ; Wide 9 cm ; Depth 6,5 cm

Weight: 496,7 grams

Goddess Green seated with hand in a gesture of gift-giving (Varadamudra), gilt bronze with red lacquer and gemstones, Nepal, 15th century.

Finely cast and well worn, seated in lalitasana atop a double lotus dais, her left foot resting on a small lotus platform issuing from the base, her right hand lowered in varada mudra and her left in vitarka mudra holding a lotus stem. Dressed in a diaphanous dhoti engraved with folds and geometric patterns, and richly adorned in fine jewellery . Her hair tightly arranged in a jewel-topped chignon behind a foliate tiara.

Unsold
Estimated at €2,400 - €3,000