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A GILT SILVER FIGURE OF TARA 銀鎏金度母像
TIBET, CIRCA 14TH CENTURY 西藏，約十四世紀
Himalayan Art Resources item no.61738 喜馬拉雅藝術資源網61738號
11.3 cm (4 1/2 in.) high 高11.3釐米（4 1/2 英吋）

HK$300,000 - 500,000 300,000 - 500,000 港元

此尊度母煥發銀光，面帶微笑，白毫以綠松石鑲嵌，彰顯其佛性。
Glowing in silver, Tara gently smiles at the viewer. Emphasizing her 其更加女性化的寶冠於額前形成拱型，有別於常見的平底冠。相似
enlightened Buddha-nature, her third eye has been finely inset with 的拱型寶冠可見於一尊十四世紀銅鎏金度母像，載於施羅德，《印
turquoise. Instead of a typical flat-bottomed crown, she is adorned 度與西藏的銅造像》，香港，1981年，頁428，112A號。兩尊造像
with a more feminine tiara that forms an arch above her forehead. 對指甲及指節的處理亦非常相似，手部整體造型優美。此尊造像蓮
A similar arched tiara is seen on a 14th-century gilt bronze Tara 座之花瓣，狀若簡樸實則抒情，亦符合十四世紀之特質；見一尊銀
published in von Schroeder, Indo-Tibetan Bronzes, Hong Kong, 質噶瑪巴西像，施羅德，《西藏佛教造像》，香港，2001年，頁
1981, p.428, no.112A. The fingernails and knuckles are also similar, 1200-1201，327C號）。
articulating the hands finely. The present sculpture’s thick petals,
seemingly plain but quite lyrical, are also consistent with a 14th-
century attribution; compare a silver figure of Karma Pakshi published
in von Schroeder, Buddhist Sculptures in Tibet, Hong Kong, 2001,
pp.1200-1, no.327C.

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