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A BRONZE FIGURE OF GREEN TARA
TIBET, 16TH-17TH CENTURY
4¿ in. (10.8 cm.) high
$5,000-7,000

PROVENANCE
Eleanor Abraham, New York, 1 April 2014

Green Tara is depicted in a provincial style with
simplifed ornaments and upright posture. The
deeply patinated goddess of liberation is ungilded,
cast in a dark metal alloy. Compare the crown
style with niches for inlaid stones, distinctive
facial expression, lithe limbs, and double-petaled
base to a bronze fgure of Manjushri dated to
the seventeenth century, see U. von Schroeder,
Indo-Tibetan Bronzes, Hong Kong, 1981, p. 493,
fg. 140F.
Himalayan Art Resources (himalayanart.org),
item no. 24484.

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A POLYCHROMED WOODEN FIGURE
OF SARASWATI
TIBET, 17TH-18TH CENTURY
5 in. (12.7 cm.) high
$6,000-8,000

PROVENANCE
Acquired in the 1990s, by repute
The Scholar’s Vision: The Pal Family Collection;
Christie’s New York, 20 March 2008, lot 419

Himalayan Art Resources (himalayanart.org),
item no. 24482.

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