A MONGOLIAN GILT-COPPER FIGURE OF A PROTECTIVE DEITY, standing in alidhasana, both stretched hands in tarjanimudra, wearing boots, elaborate cloaks, engraved with flowers and cloud motifs, his cold-gilded angry face with bulging eyes, urna, broad nose, open mouth showing teeth, elongated earlobes with circular ear rings, red coloured curled hairdress, early 19th Century

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A MONGOLIAN GILT-COPPER FIGURE OF A PROTECTIVE DEITY, standing in alidhasana, both stretched hands in tarjanimudra, wearing boots, elaborate cloaks, engraved with flowers and cloud motifs, his cold-gilded angry face with bulging eyes, urna, broad nose, open mouth showing teeth, elongated earlobes with circular ear rings, red coloured curled hairdress, early 19th Century
44 cm high, mounted

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