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Property from a Private East Coast Collection
A gilt bronze figure of Shri Devi
TIBETO-CHINESE, 18TH CENTURY
Details
A gilt bronze figure of Shri Devi
Tibeto-Chinese, 18th century
Seated on a horse who strides through a sea of blood swimming with dismembered body parts, her left hand holding a skull cup and her right raised in vitarkamudra, dressed in a tiger skin and adorned with a garland of severed heads and a serpent coiled across her chest, the face with wrathful expression and third eye surmounted by a skull diadem, the hair in flames, the base sealed with a double-vajra
7 in. (17.7 cm.) high
Tibeto-Chinese, 18th century
Seated on a horse who strides through a sea of blood swimming with dismembered body parts, her left hand holding a skull cup and her right raised in vitarkamudra, dressed in a tiger skin and adorned with a garland of severed heads and a serpent coiled across her chest, the face with wrathful expression and third eye surmounted by a skull diadem, the hair in flames, the base sealed with a double-vajra
7 in. (17.7 cm.) high
Provenance
Collection of Lewis Perry, United States, before 1949
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