A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF TARA AND A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF VAJRAPANI TIBET, 18TH CENTURY

the Tara cast standing on a beaded lotus pedestal with hips slightly thrust to the right and her right hand lowered in varada mudra, dressed in loose flowing robes and elaborately adorned with jewellery; Vajrapani cast standing in pratyalidasana with his arms crossed at the wrists, dressed in a tiger skin dhoti and a garland of three severed heads on his back, together with an associated gilt-bronze consort