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| Keywords: Nepalese - Tara - Walters 543012.jpg This figure sits in the lalitasana posture on a lotus and has the stalks of two lotuses attached to both arms Her left hand displays the gesture of teaching and her extended right arm exhibits the gesture of charity Her garment's pleats spread out like a fan on the lotus seat; she wears a tiara with five crests large elaborate turquoise-inlaid earrings and a long strand of pearls which hangs between her breasts ca 1300 gilt copper alloy cm 14 accession number 54 3012 17840 John and Berthe Ford Baltimore date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum John Berthe Ford 2002 Unreadable Desire and Devotion Art from India Nepal and Tibet in the John and Berthe Ford Collection The Walters Art Museum Baltimore; Birmingham Museum of Art Birmingham; Santa Barbara Museum of Art Santa Barbara; Albuquerque Museum Albuquerque 2001-2003 place of origin west Nepal Walters Art Museum license Nepalese art in the Walters Art Museum Metalwork of Nepal Tara Bronze of Nepal | ||||
