A small Tibetan gilt bronze figure of Sita Tara Zwoll

A small Tibetan gilt bronze figure of Sita Tara Zwoll, 16th/17th century, old wear, 10cm. Provenance: Ernest Ohly Collection. Tara is a female Bodhisattva typically associated with Tibetan Buddhism. She is the "mother of liberation", and represents the virtues of success in work and achievements. Tara is also the feminine goddess archetype in Hindu mythology. Tara governs the underworld, the earth and the heavens, birth, death and regeneration, love and war, the seasons, all that lives and grows.