A NEPALESE GILT-COPPER FIGURE OF DURGA, standing in alidhasana on a separate cast lotus-base, her principal hands holding karttrika and kapala, the others radiating around her body and holding her specific attributes and mudras, wearing tigerskin, a scaled skirt, snake-mala, bone skirt, mala of severed heads, snake-ornaments, floating scarf, her face with angry expression, incised third eye, elongated earlobes with snake-shaped ear-rings, five-leaf crown set with skulls, jatamakuta with skull and a flaming arch-shaped aureol behind, unsealed, 2nd half 16th Century