A RARE INLAID GILT-BRONZE FOUR-ARMED FIGURE OF AN OFFERING GODDESS TIBET, DENSATIL, 15TH CENTURY

dancing with the right foot behind the left, three of the four hands holding musical instruments, including a conch shell trumpet, damaru and kapala, the voluptuous nude torso adorned with inlaid beaded necklaces and armbands, the head gently tilted head and depicted with a serene expression, flanked by pendulous earlobes adorned with elaborate earrings and a five-leaf diadem enclosing neatly coiffed hair with two tresses falling to her shoulders

Himalayan Art Resources item no. 13438

As visible in the catalogue photo, there is general surface wear and scratching and losses to several inlaid stones. Minor oxidisation. There is a loss to one of the tangs on the reverse.
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Gilt-bronze plaques of this form, decorated with offering goddesses, adorned the stupa at the Densatil monastery complex, as seen in the photographs taken by Pietry Francesco Mele when he accompanied Giuseppe Tucci on his 1948 expedition to Tibet. These are reproduced in Olaf Czaja and Adriana Proser, Golden Visions of Densatil: A Tibetan Buddhist Monastery, New York, 2014, pp. 38-39.

For a similar example, see Han Shuli, Xizang yishu jicui [A Treasury of Tibetan Art], Taipei, 1995, pl. 106.