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TIBET, 14TH CENTURY
Details
A silver- and copper-inlaid bronze figure of Mahakala
Tibet, 14th century
Striding powerfully in alidhasana over a prostrate corpse, the principal hands crossed at the chest and the others radiating around him wielding weapons and ritual implements, wearing bone ornaments, coiled snakes, and a garland of severed heads, his fierce face with three bulging eyes and bared teeth, the flaming hair rising from a skull tiara, with silver and copper inlay on the ornaments and face
3½ in. (8.9 cm.) high
Tibet, 14th century
Striding powerfully in alidhasana over a prostrate corpse, the principal hands crossed at the chest and the others radiating around him wielding weapons and ritual implements, wearing bone ornaments, coiled snakes, and a garland of severed heads, his fierce face with three bulging eyes and bared teeth, the flaming hair rising from a skull tiara, with silver and copper inlay on the ornaments and face
3½ in. (8.9 cm.) high
Provenance
Doris Wiener Gallery, New York, 1967