Description: Sita-Tara (White Tara). Tibet. Old, fire-gilt bronze figure. Polychrome painted. Unmounted on (newer) wooden pedestal. Height 24.5 cm / 9.6” (total), height 19 cm / 7.5” (sculpture). From German private collection. Her right hand showing the varada mudra, her left hand in vitarka mudra and holding a long lotus flower. Seated in dhyana-asana on a wooden pedestal. High, adorned ushnisha. Wearing a multi-leaved crown, some jewelry, and clothes of a female Buddhist Bodhisattva. Bottom covered with consecration plate. Slight signs of age and wear.