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18TH/19TH CENTURY
Details
A Tibeto Chinese gilt-bronze figure of Simhavaktra
18th/19th century
Standing in dancing posture on a reclining figure placed on the lotus pericarp, her right hand holding chopper and the left a blood filled crane, wearing tiger-skin, garland of severed heads, shawl, bejewelled, lion-faced, open snout, tiara set with five skulls in front of her flaming hairdress, sealed
16 cm high
18th/19th century
Standing in dancing posture on a reclining figure placed on the lotus pericarp, her right hand holding chopper and the left a blood filled crane, wearing tiger-skin, garland of severed heads, shawl, bejewelled, lion-faced, open snout, tiara set with five skulls in front of her flaming hairdress, sealed
16 cm high
Provenance
Auctionhouse Roldan and Cia, Buenos Aires 1979, lot 78
Exhibited
Museo Nacional de Arte Oriental, Arte del Himalaya, Buenos Aires 1980
Special notice
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