A Tibeto Chinese gilt-bronze figure of a Dakini
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A Tibeto Chinese gilt-bronze figure of a Dakini

18TH CENTURY

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A Tibeto Chinese gilt-bronze figure of a Dakini
18th century
Standing in alidhasana on a lotus pericarp, her right hand holding the karrtrika, the left raised and carries the blood filled kapala, bejewelled, her face with wrathful expression, painted facial details, elongated earlobes with large ear rings, tiara with five skulls in front of her red coloured hairdress topped by a half-vajra, unsealed
17.5 cm high
Provenance
A. Girondo, Buenos Aires
A. Gilardone, Buenos Aires, 1977
Literature
Galeria Velazquez, Arte Oriental, Buenos Aires 1949, no. 606
Exhibited
Museo Nacional de Arte Oriental, Arte del Himalaya, Buenos Aires 1980
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