
Mark Rasmussen
International Director
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西藏 約十四世紀 銅鎏金綠度母像
With the power to help overcome fears and grant wishes, Green Tara is highly revered in Tibet and Nepal. This charming visage of the goddess has received much affection from the devotees' thumb over the centuries, giving rise to an attractive dark brown and pinkish coppery patina under the gilded outer layer at the most propitiated touch-points.
Her face has an uplifting countenance with endearing rounded cheeks and expertly modeled lips, nose, and eyes. Most certainly made by a Newari craftsman, she may have had an initial Tibetan patron, given the sealed base-plate underneath. For other contemporaneous examples that share her full figure and lotus base style, see von Schroeder, Indo-Tibetan Bronzes Hong Kong, 1981, p.364, no.98B.
Provenance
Koller, Zurich, 28-31 May 1980, lot 413
Swiss Private Collection
Koller, Zurich, 29 October 2013, lot 103
New York Private Collection