A FINE NEPALESE GILT-COPPER MASK OF BHAIRAVA, embossed with bulging eyes, urna, flaming eyebrows, broad nose, pierced open mouth, moustache, beard, pierced elongated earlobes, crown with central bodhisattva-head, flanked to both sides by two skulls, flaming hairdress, circa 16th Century

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A FINE NEPALESE GILT-COPPER MASK OF BHAIRAVA, embossed with bulging eyes, urna, flaming eyebrows, broad nose, pierced open mouth, moustache, beard, pierced elongated earlobes, crown with central bodhisattva-head, flanked to both sides by two skulls, flaming hairdress, circa 16th Century
54 cm high, on base

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