A SILVER-INLAID BRONZE FIGURE OF TARA
A SILVER-INLAID BRONZE FIGURE OF TARA

KASHMIR, 10TH-11TH CENTURY

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A SILVER-INLAID BRONZE FIGURE OF TARA
KASHMIR, 10TH-11TH CENTURY
Seated in lalitasana on a lotus base over a rectangular plinth, the right hand extended in varadamudra and the left holding the stem of a lotus which is blossoming at her shoulder, the face with silver-inlaid eyes surmounted by a foliate tiara, all backed by a conjoined aureole and flaming nimbus
3 5/8 in. (9.2 cm.) high
Provenance
Kapoor Galleries, New York, 29 September 1984.
The James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection, Chicago.

Lot Essay


Compare the unusual double necklaces with the lower chain resting heavily atop and cascading between the breasts of the current figure; the beaded and flaming aureole; the low girdle; and the unadorned bangles and anklets with another tenth-century Kashmiri bronze figure of Tara from the Pan-Asian Collection, illustrated by U. von Schroeder in Indo-Tibetan Bronzes, Hong Kong, 1981, p. 129, cat. no. 21E.

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