Ink and distemper on canvas. Tara, Buddha of transcendent wisdom, seated in lalitasana on a white cushion over a lotus base, her right hand lowered in varadamudra, and her left raised in abhayamudra holding a lotus stem which blossoms over her left shoulder, wearing a multi-coloured dhoti, adorned with beaded jewellery, her face with benevolent expression and backed by multiple halos, flanked by hundreds of deities. Light consumption on colours, minor stains, being framed the back could not be examined.46,6 cm high, 32 cm wide without rim and frameA FRAMED THANKA OF WHITE TARA, TIBET, 18TH-19TH CENTURYProvenance: from the private collection of an important Italian ambassador and thence by descent