Arts of the Middle East

RIGHT

A fine Amritsar carpet, Indian, late 19th century

474 x 347cm

PROVENANCE

Australia

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European Furniture

BELOW

A superb and rare George I scarlet lacquer bureau bookcase, English, circa 1730

215cm high, 100cm wide, 59cm deep

PROVENANCE

From the collection of Mr and Mrs P. HackforthJones, Melbourne Literature Antiques in Australia from Private Collections, John Rogan, Illustrated

Himalayan and South-East Asian Art

ABOVE

A very fine and rare Nepalese bronze parcel-gilt figure of Tara, 9th-10th century the heavily bejeweled figure standing in tribhanga on a round lotus pedestal with a ring for attachment to a shrine, the right hand in varada mudra, the left in kataka mudra holding the stalk of the lotus (Padma) the flower upon the left shoulder, wearing a transparent robe and a three-leaf crown

25.4cm high

REFERENCE see Hugo Munsterburg Scupture of the Orient, NY, 1972, p. 31 for a very similar Tara in the British Museum