A RARE TIBETAN SILVER, COPPER AND GILT-COPPER FIGURE OF SAMVARA AND VAISHYAVAJRAVARAHI, standing in pratyalidhasana on a separate cast lotus-base, Samvara holding vajra and ghanta, wearing tiger-skin, mala of severed heads, other body-ornaments, channavira at his back, cold-gilded face with painted facial details, crown set with skulls, blue painted chignon, Vaishyavajravarahi with her right foot around his body, holding karttrika and kapala, wearing mala of skulls, body-ornaments, cold-gilded face with painted facial details, red painted hairdress, sealed, 16th Century
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A RARE TIBETAN SILVER, COPPER AND GILT-COPPER FIGURE OF SAMVARA AND VAISHYAVAJRAVARAHI, standing in pratyalidhasana on a separate cast lotus-base, Samvara holding vajra and ghanta, wearing tiger-skin, mala of severed heads, other body-ornaments, channavira at his back, cold-gilded face with painted facial details, crown set with skulls, blue painted chignon, Vaishyavajravarahi with her right foot around his body, holding karttrika and kapala, wearing mala of skulls, body-ornaments, cold-gilded face with painted facial details, red painted hairdress, sealed, 16th Century
16 cm high