STATUETTE DE SITATARA EN ALLIAGE DE CUIVRE DORÉNÉPAL, XIVE SIÈCLEHimalayan Art Resources item no. 144419 cm (7 1/2 in.) highProvenance: A GILT COPPER ALLOY FIGURE OF SITATARANEPAL, 14TH CENTURY尼泊爾 十四世紀 銅鎏金白度母像Once part of a triad, this figure of Sitatara stands on a circular lotus platform supported and flanked by thickly scrolling stems. Here, the artist captures the goddess in motion with the bending of her wrists and her right hip swinging out a pleated section of her dress. Holding the stem of a partially unfurled lotus, the goddess likely represents the Buddhist savioress Tara.See two closely related examples, one of which is published in von Schroeder,Indo-Tibetan Bronzes, 1981, p. 345, no. 88F, while the other is located in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (). Also see an earlier dated Nepalese triad from the Nasli and Alice Heeramaneck Collection and now in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (M.79.9.4).Provenance:A&J Speelman, London, 1990sRaphy Star Collection, AustraliaMossgreen, Melbourne, 11 December 2016, lot 36