A RARE EAST TIBETAN SILVER FIGURE OF A PROTECTIVE DEITY, standing in alidhasana, both hands in tarjanimudra, wearing pleated robe, long sleeves, boots, mala of severed heads, his face with angry expression, bulging eyes, broad nose, elongated earlobes with ear rings, five-leaf crown with skulls, blue painted high chignon with a pair of snakes flanking a stupa, traces of cold-gilding, 17th/18th Century

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A RARE EAST TIBETAN SILVER FIGURE OF A PROTECTIVE DEITY, standing in alidhasana, both hands in tarjanimudra, wearing pleated robe, long sleeves, boots, mala of severed heads, his face with angry expression, bulging eyes, broad nose, elongated earlobes with ear rings, five-leaf crown with skulls, blue painted high chignon with a pair of snakes flanking a stupa, traces of cold-gilding, 17th/18th Century
16 cm high

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