A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF GREEN TARA
PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF BARONESS EVA BESSENYEY
A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF GREEN TARA

TIBET, 13TH-14TH CENTURY

Details
A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF GREEN TARA
TIBET, 13TH-14TH CENTURY
4 ¼ in. (10.8 cm.) high
Provenance
Sotheby's New York, 24 September 1997, lot 261

Lot Essay

Compare the treatment of the jewelry, drapery, and base type of the present figure with a non-gilt Tibetan bronze figure of Tara, circa twelfth century, illustrated by Ulrich von Schroeder in Buddhist Sculpture in Tibet, Volume Two: Tibet and China, Hong Kong, 2001, p. 1106, pl. 288A.

Himalayan Art Resources (himalayanart.org), item no. 24478.

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