Standing in tribhanga over a lotus base with her hips swung to the left, her right hand in varada mudra and her left in vitarka mudra holding a lotus blossom, clad in a long pleated dhoti secured by a jeweled sash and further adorned by jewelry inset with hard stones, her face with delicately smiling lips and almond-shaped eyes, her hair gathered in a braided chignon and surmounted by a foliate tiara centered by a kirttimukha mask, the back with a sealed rectangular opening for consecration, richly gilt overall 10¼ in (26 cm.) high
Details
- Title : A hardstone inlaid gilt bronze figure of Tara
- Classification : Sculpture
- Medium : Hard stone Inlaid Gilt Bronze
- Country/ Geo-location : Nepal
- Period : 16TH CENTURY
- Collection : Christies
- LOT : 15
- Price realised : USD 104,500
- Estimate : USD 80,000 - USD 100,000
- Provenance : Nasli and Alice Heeramaneck Collection, before 1972 *Christian Humann, Pan-Asian Collection, before 1977 *Robert H. Ellsworth Collection *Sotheby's New York, 6 October 1990, lot 79
- Exhibited : The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, before 1977