Tibetan Buddha Figure & Statue partly gold plated with color painted head

Mayadevi, the mother of Buddha, who was born in the 6. century before Chr. as Prince Siddharta and she was the wife of king Suddondana from Kapilavastu, south-west Nepal. Iconographically, she is shown in a standing tribhanga (twisted) pose on a lotus with left hand in boon-giving pose and right hand lifted to hold a branch of a tree, as it is known at the time of delivery she held a branchof a sal (shorea). She wears a crown and ornaments.