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PROPERTY FROM A MIDWESTERN COLLECTION
A gilt bronze figure of Kurukulla
TIBETO-CHINESE, 18TH CENTURY
Details
A gilt bronze figure of Kurukulla
Tibeto-Chinese, 18th Century
The four-armed deity with legs bent in dance, wearing a lion skin around her waist and a billowing sash around her shoulders, a garland of severed heads, multiple beaded necklaces draped over her torso, her face with the third eye and her flaming hair secured with a skull tiara, with polychromy remaining on the face and hair
7¼ in. (18.4 cm.) high
Tibeto-Chinese, 18th Century
The four-armed deity with legs bent in dance, wearing a lion skin around her waist and a billowing sash around her shoulders, a garland of severed heads, multiple beaded necklaces draped over her torso, her face with the third eye and her flaming hair secured with a skull tiara, with polychromy remaining on the face and hair
7¼ in. (18.4 cm.) high
Provenance
Acquired in the 1950s