A TIBETO CHINESE GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF SIMHAVAKTRA, standing in ardhaparyankana on a separately cast human figure on a triangular wave base, wearing ornaments set with coloured stones and mala of skulls, dressed in a skirt of tiger-skin, a flayed elephant-skin at the back, scarf, in her raised right hand a karttrika, in her left a kapala, the lion's face with opened muzzle, five-skull crown and mandorla shaped red painted flaming hairdress, unsealed, 18th Century

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A TIBETO CHINESE GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF SIMHAVAKTRA, standing in ardhaparyankana on a separately cast human figure on a triangular wave base, wearing ornaments set with coloured stones and mala of skulls, dressed in a skirt of tiger-skin, a flayed elephant-skin at the back, scarf, in her raised right hand a karttrika, in her left a kapala, the lion's face with opened muzzle, five-skull crown and mandorla shaped red painted flaming hairdress, unsealed, 18th Century
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