A RARE MONGOLIAN GILT-COPPER FIGURE OF SARVABUDDHADAKINI, standing in pratyalidhasana on a separate cast lotus-base, trampeling two figures, her left hand holding kapala, the left right holding karttrika, the khatvanga resting on her shoulder, naked except for a separate moulded mala of skulls, channavira, large earrings, her cold-gilded face with angry expression, urna, painted facial details, crown with skulls, blue painted hairdress, surmounted by a half-vajra, a separate moulded flaming aureol behind, sealed, early 19th Century
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A RARE MONGOLIAN GILT-COPPER FIGURE OF SARVABUDDHADAKINI, standing in pratyalidhasana on a separate cast lotus-base, trampeling two figures, her left hand holding kapala, the left right holding karttrika, the khatvanga resting on her shoulder, naked except for a separate moulded mala of skulls, channavira, large earrings, her cold-gilded face with angry expression, urna, painted facial details, crown with skulls, blue painted hairdress, surmounted by a half-vajra, a separate moulded flaming aureol behind, sealed, early 19th Century
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