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A New Bronze Age for Nepal

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Fig. 4: Semiprecious stones adorn this 14th century Buddhist Tara, (or possibly Hindu Laksmi) an image created at a high point of Nepal’s sculpting tradition.

H. 22.25”
Gilt copper alloy with color, inlaid with semiprecious stones

Metropolitan Museum NY Louis V. Bell Fund, 1966 66.179.