A TIBETAN GILT-COPPER FIGURE OF SITATARA, seated in lalitasana on a lotus-base, her right hand in varadamudra and holding the lotus-stem flowering along her shoulder, her left in vitarkamudra and holding a different moulded lotus-stem flowering along her shoulder, wearing dhoti engraved with flowerheads, scarf, many bodhisattva-ornaments, partly set with turquoise and lapis lazuli beads, her face with downcast expression, urna, smiling lips, elongated earlobes with elaborate ear-rings, five-leaf tiara and high makuta, sealed, circa A.D. 1500

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A TIBETAN GILT-COPPER FIGURE OF SITATARA, seated in lalitasana on a lotus-base, her right hand in varadamudra and holding the lotus-stem flowering along her shoulder, her left in vitarkamudra and holding a different moulded lotus-stem flowering along her shoulder, wearing dhoti engraved with flowerheads, scarf, many bodhisattva-ornaments, partly set with turquoise and lapis lazuli beads, her face with downcast expression, urna, smiling lips, elongated earlobes with elaborate ear-rings, five-leaf tiara and high makuta, sealed, circa A.D. 1500
19.5 cm high

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