TIBET, XVIIIEME SIECLE

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STATUE DE SITATAPATRA EN BRONZE DORE
TIBET, XVIIIEME SIECLE
Représentée debout, ses jambes multiples en alidhasana, sa main droite tenant un miroir, la gauche un autre attribut à l'origine, vêtue d'un sari complexe, parée de bijoux, une écharpe sur les épaules, ses mille visages dorés à froid, l'expression sévère, les détails peints, les fronts ceints de tiares incrustées, rescellé, base moderne ; les bras manquants
Hauteur: 43 cm. (17 in.)

Literature

J.P. Klautz, Schoonheid en mystiek in de collectie Da Silva, Bres Planète, no.10, La Haye 1966, pp.97-106

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Further details

A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF SITATAPATRA
TIBET, 18TH CENTURY

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Lot Essay

She is a form of the White Tara and the female counterpart of the one thousand-armed form of Avalokiteshvara. She has one thousand heads, arms (here missing) and feet, and is iconographical one of the most complex deities in the Vajrayana pantheon and sculptural images of this goddess are rare.

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