A CENTRAL TIBETAN BRONZE FIGURE MGUR-GON-PA MAHAKALA, standing with bent legs on a human figure, on a lotus, both hands in front of the abdomen and holding the kartrika and kapala, a tent-pole is resting on both arms, wearing dharmapala-ornaments, tiger-skin, mala of severed human heads, his face with urna, bulging eyes, broad nose, open mouth showing fangs and teeth, elongated earlobes with large ear-rings, painted facial details, crown set with skulls, high red painted hairdress with snake-ornament, unsealed, 16th Century
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A CENTRAL TIBETAN BRONZE FIGURE MGUR-GON-PA MAHAKALA, standing with bent legs on a human figure, on a lotus, both hands in front of the abdomen and holding the kartrika and kapala, a tent-pole is resting on both arms, wearing dharmapala-ornaments, tiger-skin, mala of severed human heads, his face with urna, bulging eyes, broad nose, open mouth showing fangs and teeth, elongated earlobes with large ear-rings, painted facial details, crown set with skulls, high red painted hairdress with snake-ornament, unsealed, 16th Century
11 cm high
Literature
Kreijger, H., Godenbeelden uit Tibet, Amsterdam, 1989, p. 95
Exhibited
Goden en goeroes, Museum of Ethnology, Rotterdam, June 17 - November 28, 1989
Lot Essay
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