A TIBETO CHINESE GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF A FORM OF MAHAKALA AND HIS CONSORT, standing in pratyalidhasana on a bull and a human figure on a separately cast lotus throne, wearing dharmapala ornaments, tiger skin, his right raised hand in karanamudra, in his left raised hand a sword, in his principal hands a ghanta and a kapala, the consort holding kapala in her left hand, the ferocious head with beard, bushy eyebrows and opened mouth, crowned and surmounted by flaming hair with coiling snake, resealed, circa A.D. 1800
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A TIBETO CHINESE GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF A FORM OF MAHAKALA AND HIS CONSORT, standing in pratyalidhasana on a bull and a human figure on a separately cast lotus throne, wearing dharmapala ornaments, tiger skin, his right raised hand in karanamudra, in his left raised hand a sword, in his principal hands a ghanta and a kapala, the consort holding kapala in her left hand, the ferocious head with beard, bushy eyebrows and opened mouth, crowned and surmounted by flaming hair with coiling snake, resealed, circa A.D. 1800
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