GALERIE CARLO CRISTI – ASIAN ARTS COMPANY : Highlights !

Carlo Cristi specializes in Tibetan, Nepalese, Indian art and Central Asian art. His traveling in Asia since 1973 has raised the passion for the art and cultures of the countries where he lived for several years.

For more than twenty years has participated to important Fairs like Asia Week New York, Brussels Asian Art Fair, which he directed from 2013 to 2015, Hong Kong Fine Art Asia, and has served several Museums in USA and Europe as well private collections. Asian Arts Company is based in Brussels, Belgium.

We look forward to seeing Carlo Cristi at the Pagoda of Paris for the 8th edition of Asia Week Paris, and in the meantime we're sharing some of his highlights with you !

TARA

Copper alloy, hardstones,

Nepal, Thakuri period, 10th – 11th century AD.

Dimensions: 31 cm (12 1/4 in)

Provenance: N. & A. Heeramaneck Collection, USA.

Prior to 1995 : ancient Dutch private collection ;

ancient EU private collection

Publication : Cast for Eternity, Jan van Alphen, Antwerp, 2005

Popular amongst the Buddhists cults of India, Nepal, Tibet, Mongolia and China, Tara “The saviouress” is highly worshipped in Vajrayana Buddhism. She is represented in a youthful aspect, with a slender body, in a gentle and elegant tribhanga that enhances her feminity .Her hand observes the abhaya mudra position. Adorned with a crown, necklace and armlets with stones incrustations, Tara manifests her divine status. In her aspect “Green Tara” she’s the saviouress devoted to save souls from the dangers of the world.