A GILT COPPER ALLOY FIGURE DEPICTING TARA Tibeto-Chinese, 18th Century

seated in lalitasana with the extended right foot supported by a lotus, wearing the five-pointed crown with curling hairstyle and decorative finial, two elaborate lotus flowers at the right and left elbows, adorned with the bodhisattva jewelry, the hem of the dhoti incised

Crane Gallery, Seattle, early 1990s.
Private Santa Fe collection. 

Wear to gilding and accretion overall. Loss to left thumb. Traces of polychrome at hair and crown. Losses to original stone inlay. Base plate now missing.
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Himalayan Art Resources item no. 12931