A RARE NEPALESE GILT-COPPER FIGURE OF HANUMAN, standing in alidhasana on the top of a cylindrical shaft, his principle hands holding the branch of a tree, his upper hands holding axe and fire, wearing dhoti, scarf, channavira, his monkey-face with broad nose, his back with curling tail, red painted flaming hairdress set with five-leaf crown, shaft of pole with inscription and dated A.D. 1683

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A RARE NEPALESE GILT-COPPER FIGURE OF HANUMAN, standing in alidhasana on the top of a cylindrical shaft, his principle hands holding the branch of a tree, his upper hands holding axe and fire, wearing dhoti, scarf, channavira, his monkey-face with broad nose, his back with curling tail, red painted flaming hairdress set with five-leaf crown, shaft of pole with inscription and dated A.D. 1683
49 cm high, mounted

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