A TIBETO-CHINESE GILT-COPPER FIGURE OF LHA-MO, seated astride her mule, standing on a separate cast lotus-base, her right hand raised, her left holding the kapala, wearing skirt, tigerskin, dharmapala-ornaments, her face with bulging eyes, open mouth showing teeth, bushy eyebrows, five-leaf crown, red painted flaming hairdress, her mule cast with human-skin as saddle, sealed, 18th Century
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A TIBETO-CHINESE GILT-COPPER FIGURE OF LHA-MO, seated astride her mule, standing on a separate cast lotus-base, her right hand raised, her left holding the kapala, wearing skirt, tigerskin, dharmapala-ornaments, her face with bulging eyes, open mouth showing teeth, bushy eyebrows, five-leaf crown, red painted flaming hairdress, her mule cast with human-skin as saddle, sealed, 18th Century
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