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TIBET, 19TH CENTURY
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A Thanka of Vajrakila
Tibet, 19th Century
Painted against a black ground amidst a mountainous and tree-filled landscape, the personification of the phurba with arms and wings outstretched in a flaming aureole holding a vajra and a scorpion, wearing a garland of serpents and severed skulls and piercing a prostrated figure lying on a lotus blossom, with two smaller guardian figures below
9¼ x 6¾ in. (23.5 x 17.2 cm.)
Tibet, 19th Century
Painted against a black ground amidst a mountainous and tree-filled landscape, the personification of the phurba with arms and wings outstretched in a flaming aureole holding a vajra and a scorpion, wearing a garland of serpents and severed skulls and piercing a prostrated figure lying on a lotus blossom, with two smaller guardian figures below
9¼ x 6¾ in. (23.5 x 17.2 cm.)