A gilt-bronze figure of TaraTibet, 16th/17th century
The female Bodhisattva seated in dhyanasana atop a double lotus pedestal, the right hand lowered in varada mudra and the left raised in vitarka mudra, the benevolent face framed by a foliate tiara, richly adorned with various jewellery inset with turquoise. 14.7cm (5 3/4in) high.注脚西藏 十六/十七世紀 銅鎏金度母像

Himalayan Art Resources item no.16781
喜馬拉雅藝術資源網16781號

Provenance:
Henry Harrison Getty (1838-1919), by repute
Alice Getty (d.1946), by repute
Courtenay Morgan, Viscount Tredegar (1867-1934), by repute
Evan Morgan, 2nd Viscount Tredegar (1893-1949), by repute
Professor and Mrs Bellerby, by repute
Mark Dineley (1901-1975)
Peter Dineley (1938-2018), and thence by descent

Noted in the handwritten family 'A Catalogue of the Dineley Collection of Tibetiana and Associated Buddhistic Objects', early 1960s, p.108.

來源：
傳亨利·哈里遜·蓋蒂舊藏（1838-1919年）
傳愛麗絲·蓋蒂舊藏（卒於1946年）
傳卓德嘉子爵考特尼·摩根舊藏（1867-1934年）
傳特里迪格子爵二世艾文·摩根舊藏（1893-1949年）
傳貝勒比教授及夫人舊藏
馬克·戴尼利舊藏（1901-1975年）
彼得·戴尼利舊藏（1938-2018年），並由家族繼承

記載於戴尼利家族手稿《戴尼利家族的西藏州和相關的佛教物品收藏目錄》'A Catalogue of the Dineley Collection of Tibetiana and Associated Buddhistic Objects'，1960年代初，頁108。

Tara is a completely enlightened Buddha that typically appears in the form of a female deity. It is considered the second most popular meditational deity amongst all the deity forms practiced in Tibetan Buddhism. Meditational practices and visual descriptions for Tara are found in all classes of Buddhist Tantra, both Nyingma and Sarma schools.

Compare with a related gilt-bronze figure of seated Tara, Tibet, from the Tibet House Museum, New Delhi (Himalayan Art Resources item no.71850), with similar modelling of the double-lotus base and turquoise inlay.

度母頭戴五葉冠，髮髻高聳，頂戴花冠，耳垂大環，髮披兩肩，項戴瓔珞，臂戴約束，左右施予願印，右手執蓮莖（已佚），全跏趺坐於仰覆蓮座，通體鎏金，髮染紺紫。

此件度母顯身女相，藏傳佛教各個教派皆有修行之，寧瑪、薩瑪兩派皆然。參考一件新德里西藏之家達賴喇嘛文化中心所藏西藏銅鎏金度母坐像，其仰覆蓮辦和嵌松石與之相似，喜馬拉雅藝術資源網編號71850。