A TIBETO CHINESE PARTLY GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF SITATARA, seated in vajrasana on a lotus, both hands in vitarkamudra and holding stem of lotus flowering along her shoulders, each hand and foot with engraved eye, wearing dhoti, scarf, bodhisattva-ornaments, crown, circular earrings, her face with downcast expression, third eye, aquiline nose, pouting lips and high conical-shaped chignon, unsealed, 2nd half of 18th Century
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A TIBETO CHINESE PARTLY GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF SITATARA, seated in vajrasana on a lotus, both hands in vitarkamudra and holding stem of lotus flowering along her shoulders, each hand and foot with engraved eye, wearing dhoti, scarf, bodhisattva-ornaments, crown, circular earrings, her face with downcast expression, third eye, aquiline nose, pouting lips and high conical-shaped chignon, unsealed, 2nd half of 18th Century
17.2 cm high
Literature
Kreijger, H., Godenbeelden uit Tibet, Amsterdam, 1989, p. 37
Exhibited
Goden en goeroes, Museum of Ethnology, Rotterdam, 17 June - 28 November 1989
Lot Essay
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