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Lot 96

A cast silver figure of a female deity
Java, circa 10th century

17 March 2014, 13:00 EDT
New York

US$5,000 - US$8,000

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A cast silver figure of a female deity

Java, circa 10th century
Seated in satvaparyankasana posture, with four arms holding a lotus and a fly whisk in her right hands and a boon in her lower right, wearing the upavaita diagonally across her chest, various jewelery, and a five-leaf tiara securing her jatamukata.
1 7/8 in. (5 cm) high

Footnotes

Compare to a silver figure of Tara held in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1987.142.12) of a similar size with similar Pala-inspired Javanese armbands, necklace and crown, and originally part of a triad (see Lerner & Kossak, The Lotus Transcendent, New York, 1991, no. 141, p. 182).

Provenance:
James Singer, 1999
Jack Bogart Collection, San Francisco, 1999-2008
Private Collection, California, since 2008

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