A FINE TIBETO CHINESE GILT BRONZE FIGURE OF LHA.MO

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A FINE TIBETO CHINESE GILT BRONZE FIGURE OF LHA.MO
SECOND HALF OF 18TH CENTURY

Seated astride her mule, on a separate partly red colored base, molded as the sea of blood with various human body parts, her right hand raised, formerly holding a staff, the left with a separate molded kalasa, wearing tigerskin, mala of severed heads, jacket, shawl, cape of human skin, her face with angry expression, human body in her mouth, elongated earlobes with ear rings, five skulled crown, red painted flaming hairdress set with a half moon, the mule with a human skin as saddle, his head with open mouth showing tongue, sealed--20 7/8in. (53cm.) high