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NEPAL, 14TH/15TH CENTURY
Details
A Polychromed Wood Figure of Tara
Nepal, 14th/15th Century
Carved seated in lalitasana on a double-lotus base, her hands held before her chest in the gesture of teaching, her head slightly tilted in a pensive mood with downcast eyes and hair tied in a knot to the side and resting on her shoulder, wearing a tightly fitted bodice with richly painted designs
28½ in. (72.4 cm.) high
Nepal, 14th/15th Century
Carved seated in lalitasana on a double-lotus base, her hands held before her chest in the gesture of teaching, her head slightly tilted in a pensive mood with downcast eyes and hair tied in a knot to the side and resting on her shoulder, wearing a tightly fitted bodice with richly painted designs
28½ in. (72.4 cm.) high
Provenance
Spink, London, 1998
Literature
Spink, Body, Speech and Mind, 1998, p. 54f, cat. no. 28.