NEPAL, 15TH-16TH CENTURY

The short tang at the base of this small figure indicates it may have been part of a larger arrangement. See, for instance, a similarly-sized fifteenth-sixteenth-century figure of Sarasvati, seated on a lotus base that slots into a larger lotiform aureole, in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston (acc. no. 68.750), illustrated by Pratapaditya Pal in The Arts of Nepal - Volume One: Sculpture, Leiden, 1974, figs. 240-241.

Himalayan Art Resources (himalayanart.org), item no. 24495.