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A Sino-Tibetan gilt-bronze model of Yamantaka
standing on the left leg on a prostrate acolyte, holding a dorje in one hand and a kappala in the other, wearing a skull headdress, demon-skin blanket, celestial scarf and a garland of decapitated head necklace and two hands and a strand of pearls, the details inlaid in coral, malachite and turquoise, on an oval lotus-petal base -- 8¾.in (22.2cm) high, 18th Century.
See Colour Plate 35
standing on the left leg on a prostrate acolyte, holding a dorje in one hand and a kappala in the other, wearing a skull headdress, demon-skin blanket, celestial scarf and a garland of decapitated head necklace and two hands and a strand of pearls, the details inlaid in coral, malachite and turquoise, on an oval lotus-petal base -- 8¾.in (22.2cm) high, 18th Century.
See Colour Plate 35