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Lot 81

A MONUMENTAL SINO-TIBETAN GILT BRONZE OF TARA, QING

wearing an elaborate headdress and seated on a lotus-leaf base with beaded borders, the face and hair retaining a large proportion of the polychrome decoration, the underside of the base engraved with stylised foliate panel highlighted in gilt, 72cm high x 48cm wide

Provenance: According to the family this impressive gilt-bronze left Russia after the Revolution and then remained with the family in London.

Condition Report: click here
Estimate: £30,000 - £50,000
Hammer price: £380,000
Bidding ended. Lot has been sold.

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Over painted face, ears and neck with traces of the gilding showing through, some small areas of surface tarnishing, toes and fingers rubbed, area of gilding rubbed through on the base step. No obvious repairs or restorations.

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