AN EAST TIBETAN, PROBABLY DERGE, IRON FIGURE OF VAJRAPANI, standing in samabhanga on a separate base, pierced with a band of gilded deer amongst flames, his raised right hand holding the gilded vajra, the left in tarjanimudra in front of his breast, wearing dhoti, gilded sash, many gilded body-ornaments, his face with bulging eyes, gilded bushy eyebrows, moustache and beard and the red coloured hairdress with gilded skull-ornaments, traces of cold gilded facial details and a separate flaming halo behind, sealed, 18th Century
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AN EAST TIBETAN, PROBABLY DERGE, IRON FIGURE OF VAJRAPANI, standing in samabhanga on a separate base, pierced with a band of gilded deer amongst flames, his raised right hand holding the gilded vajra, the left in tarjanimudra in front of his breast, wearing dhoti, gilded sash, many gilded body-ornaments, his face with bulging eyes, gilded bushy eyebrows, moustache and beard and the red coloured hairdress with gilded skull-ornaments, traces of cold gilded facial details and a separate flaming halo behind, sealed, 18th Century
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