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A COPPER ALLOY FIGURE OF TARA Similar examples of this type are in the Qing Palace Collection and the
QIANLONG PERIOD (1735-1796) Yonghegong (Zangchuan Fojiao Zaoxiang, Hong Kong, 2008, p.242,
Seated on a later Chinese wood stand. no.231, and Niu, Buddhist Statues in Yonghegong, Beijing, 2001,
Himalayan Art Resources item no.61661 p.31, respectively). See another (misattributed) in Kramrisch, The Art
18 cm (7 in.) high of Nepal, New York, 1964, p.131, no.17. Compare elements of the
Pala style with an 11th-century Tara in published in von Schroeder,
HK$160,000 - 240,000 Buddhist Sculptures in Tibet, vol.1, Hong Kong, 2001, pp.240-1,
no.73B-C).
乾隆時期（1735-1796）度母銅坐像 Provenance
James Defelice, London, late 1960s
This very specific representation of Tara was likely developed at
imperial workshops under the Qianlong Emperor. It borrows from,
but also amends the Indian Pala style, representative of a genre
of Buddhist sculpture reflecting the Qianlong Emperor’s perceived
enhancing of archaic styles.
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