A TIBETAN GILT-COPPER FIGURE OF HEVAJRA AND NAIRATMYA, standing with his four legs in alidhasana on two separately cast human figures on a lotus-base, his sixteen arms radiating around his body, each holding a kapala with human figures and animals, wearing many body-ornaments, mala of severed heads, his head with eight faces, each with crown, in close embracing with Nairatmya, both hands holding the kapala and the karttrika, wearing elaborate skirt, mala of skulls, her face with angry expression and five-leaf tiara, both heads with red paint, unsealed, late 16th Century

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A TIBETAN GILT-COPPER FIGURE OF HEVAJRA AND NAIRATMYA, standing with his four legs in alidhasana on two separately cast human figures on a lotus-base, his sixteen arms radiating around his body, each holding a kapala with human figures and animals, wearing many body-ornaments, mala of severed heads, his head with eight faces, each with crown, in close embracing with Nairatmya, both hands holding the kapala and the karttrika, wearing elaborate skirt, mala of skulls, her face with angry expression and five-leaf tiara, both heads with red paint, unsealed, late 16th Century
28 cm high (minute damage to upper crown, some holes)

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