CHINA, 20TH CENTURY, IN THE MING STYLE. Gilt... Lot 14

CHINA, 20TH CENTURY, IN THE MING STYLE. Gilt bronze subject with blue pigment highlights, representing the green Tara seated in lalitasana on a lotiform base, the right foot resting on a lotus, the right hand in varada mudra, the left in vitarka mudra. Apocryphal Yongle mark on the base. Base sealed by a plate engraved with a vishvavajra. (Wear of the gilding; lotus stems should have risen along the arms: the one on the right is interrupted, the one on the left, just sketched) H. 19.5 cm. Expert : Cabinet : Ansas, Papillon.