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A FINE TIBETO CHINESE GILT BRONZE FIGURE OF VAJRABHAIRAVA AND HIS CONSORT
MID-18TH CENTURY
Standing with his sixteen feet in pratyalidhasana on separate cast animals-of-prey and birds, on a sparate cast lotus base, his thirty-four arms radiating around his body, holding partly separate molded attributes, wearing dharmapala ornaments, partly set with turquoise and coral beads, his nine-faced head with central bull face, painted facial details, red painted flaming hairdress, embracing his female partner, holding the kapala and karttrika, wearing skirt, ornaments, her face with angry expression and red painted hairdress, the lotus base engraved with six character mark Qianlong and of the period, sealed--25¼in. (64cm.) high
MID-18TH CENTURY
Standing with his sixteen feet in pratyalidhasana on separate cast animals-of-prey and birds, on a sparate cast lotus base, his thirty-four arms radiating around his body, holding partly separate molded attributes, wearing dharmapala ornaments, partly set with turquoise and coral beads, his nine-faced head with central bull face, painted facial details, red painted flaming hairdress, embracing his female partner, holding the kapala and karttrika, wearing skirt, ornaments, her face with angry expression and red painted hairdress, the lotus base engraved with six character mark Qianlong and of the period, sealed--25¼in. (64cm.) high