A CENTRAL TIBETAN COPPER FIGURE OF VAJRAPANI, standing in pratyalidhasana on two human beings, resting on a lotus-base, his right hand holding vajra, his left in a form of vitarkamudra, wearing dharmapala-ornaments, including mala of severed heads, a human skin over his shoulder with one hand and foot at front side, both others, the head and another elephant head at his back, scarf, channavira, his face with angry expression, third eye, bushy eyebrows, broad nose, open mouth showing teeth and fangs, moustache, beard, five-leaf crown set with skulls, elongated earlobes with large circular ear-rings, one with turquoise bead and high makuta held together by a snake-ornament, sealed, base with lengthy inscription in the dBu-can script, early 16th Century
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A CENTRAL TIBETAN COPPER FIGURE OF VAJRAPANI, standing in pratyalidhasana on two human beings, resting on a lotus-base, his right hand holding vajra, his left in a form of vitarkamudra, wearing dharmapala-ornaments, including mala of severed heads, a human skin over his shoulder with one hand and foot at front side, both others, the head and another elephant head at his back, scarf, channavira, his face with angry expression, third eye, bushy eyebrows, broad nose, open mouth showing teeth and fangs, moustache, beard, five-leaf crown set with skulls, elongated earlobes with large circular ear-rings, one with turquoise bead and high makuta held together by a snake-ornament, sealed, base with lengthy inscription in the dBu-can script, early 16th Century
16 cm high (part of vajra broken)
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