Nepal, wooden Tara (6)

15th-16th century, Nepal, two Taras, wood, private collection, photo on Christie’s

A fragment depicting Tara seated with a leg pendent, accompanied by a smaller Tara, and there is a kinnari on the pillar behind her.

17th-18th century, Nepal, Tara, polychrome wood, private collection, photo on Christie’s.

Tara flanked by two attendants, probably another two Taras (compare with a triad seen on Sotheby’s ). Like the previous figure, she holds the stem of blue lilies. Her right hand makes the gesture of supreme generosity, the other displays the gesture of debate, normally associated with Yellow Tara.

17th-18th century, Nepal, Tara, wood and bronze, private collection, photo on Sotheby’s, Paris

A singular combination of wood with copper alloy hands and feet for this Green Tara.

18th-19th century, Nepal, Tara, polychrome wood, 36,3 cm, private collection, photo on Christie’s

Quite similar in style to a Green Tara at the Ashmolean Museum, this wooden work depicts White Tara, with her right hand in the gesture of supreme generosity and the left one in the gesture of debate.

17th-18th century, Nepal, Tara, wood, private collection, photo on Castor-Hara 

The style of the jewellery worn by this standing Tara recalls Early Malla wooden sculptures. The position of her hands is the same as the main hands of a naked four-arm Tara seen on Christie’s and of a clothed two-arm Tara from Art Institute of Chicago.

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