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NEPAL, 16TH CENTURY
Details
A hardstone inlaid gilt bronze figure of Tara
Nepal, 16th century
Standing in tribhanga over a lotus base with her hips swung to the left, her right hand in varada mudra and her left in vitarka mudra holding a lotus blossom, clad in a long pleated dhoti secured by a jeweled sash and further adorned by jewelry inset with hardstones, her face with delicately smiling lips and almond-shaped eyes, her hair gathered in a braided chignon and surmounted by a foliate tiara centered by a kirttimukha mask, the back with a sealed rectangular opening for consecration, richly gilt overall
10¼ in (26 cm.) high
Nepal, 16th century
Standing in tribhanga over a lotus base with her hips swung to the left, her right hand in varada mudra and her left in vitarka mudra holding a lotus blossom, clad in a long pleated dhoti secured by a jeweled sash and further adorned by jewelry inset with hardstones, her face with delicately smiling lips and almond-shaped eyes, her hair gathered in a braided chignon and surmounted by a foliate tiara centered by a kirttimukha mask, the back with a sealed rectangular opening for consecration, richly gilt overall
10¼ in (26 cm.) high
Provenance
Nasli and Alice Heeramaneck Collection, before 1972
Christian Humann, Pan-Asian Collection, before 1977
Robert H. Ellsworth Collection
Sotheby's New York, 6 October 1990, lot 79
Christian Humann, Pan-Asian Collection, before 1977
Robert H. Ellsworth Collection
Sotheby's New York, 6 October 1990, lot 79
Exhibited
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, before 1977