Syama-Tara (Green Tara). Tibet / China. Old gilt bronze statue. Cold gold and polychrome painting. Height 17 cm (6.7"). Weight 1494 g. From Hamburg private collection. The right hand of the Green Tara showing the varada mudra, her left hand showing the vitarka mudra and holding the stem of a long lotus flower. A nimbus surrounds the head. Wearing a multi-leaved crown as well as some jewelry and clothes of an enlightened female Buddhist Bodhisattva. Bottom covered with consecration plate with seal. Slight signs of age.