A TIBETO CHINESE GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF YAMA AND YAMI, standing in pratyalidhasana on a separately cast reclining bull with a human figure beneath on top of a lotus base, wearing dharmapala ornaments set with semi-precious stones, in his left hand a pasa, the right hand in karanamudra, the bull's head with ferocious expression, surmounted by flaming hair with a half-vajra, Yami holding in her left hand the kapala, sealed, 17th/18th Century
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A TIBETO CHINESE GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF YAMA AND YAMI, standing in pratyalidhasana on a separately cast reclining bull with a human figure beneath on top of a lotus base, wearing dharmapala ornaments set with semi-precious stones, in his left hand a pasa, the right hand in karanamudra, the bull's head with ferocious expression, surmounted by flaming hair with a half-vajra, Yami holding in her left hand the kapala, sealed, 17th/18th Century
19.5 cm high
Provenance
Collection de Grandpre
Hotel Drouot, 'Objets d'Art d'Extreme-Orient', Paris, December 5 and 6, 1934, no. 103
Lot Essay
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