A bronze figure of Tara, Eastern India, 8th century

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 EUR

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Description

Height 15 cm, 5⅞ in.

Collection of George Sheridan (1923-2008), acquired in Paris, London and New York from the 1960s onwards, and thence by descent; a passion nurtured from his friendship with Professor Samuel Eilenberg (1913-1998), who donated his collection to the Metropolitan Museum in New York in 1987.

The goddess extends her right hand in varada mudra, the left resting behind on the broad-petalled lotus pedestal holding the stem of a lotus flower, sitting in lalitasana with a flaming prabhamandala behind and a chatra canopy above. Compare the circular aureole and posture of an 8th century eastern Indian bronze Sitatapatra, and the remarkably similar lotus petal base of an 8th century Buddha found at Nalanda, see Nihar Ranjan Ray et al, Eastern Indian Bronzes, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, 1986, figs 42 and 57.

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