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Property from the Collection of Dorothy and Frank Neustatter
A Gilt Bronze Figure of Yamantaka Vajrabhairava
NEPAL, 16TH/17TH CENTURY
Details
A Gilt Bronze Figure of Yamantaka Vajrabhairava
Nepal, 16th/17th Century
Finely cast with Yamantaka in yabyum with his consort trampling on prostrated figures and animals, his principal hands holding a chopper and skull cup and his remaining hands radiating around him, wearing beaded festoons and a garland of severed heads, his consort suspending a flayed elephant skin across his back, some inlay of hardstones, the faces with cold gold and the hair with orange pigment, base sealed
12¾ in. (32.3 cm.) high
Nepal, 16th/17th Century
Finely cast with Yamantaka in yabyum with his consort trampling on prostrated figures and animals, his principal hands holding a chopper and skull cup and his remaining hands radiating around him, wearing beaded festoons and a garland of severed heads, his consort suspending a flayed elephant skin across his back, some inlay of hardstones, the faces with cold gold and the hair with orange pigment, base sealed
12¾ in. (32.3 cm.) high
Provenance
Doris Wiener, New York, acquired on 3 June 1969