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18TH CENTURY
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a Tibetan gilt-bronze figure of Samvara
18th century
Standing in alidhasana on a pair of four-armed figures, his twelve arms radiating around his body and holding the specific attributes, wearing tiger-skirt, garland with skulls and severed heads, bejewelled and partly set with semi-precious stones, his four-faced head with wrathful expression, skull tiara around chignon set with visvavajra and half-moon emblems, embracing his female consort who is holding kapala and kattrika and large flaming aureol behind, sealed
18 cm high
18th century
Standing in alidhasana on a pair of four-armed figures, his twelve arms radiating around his body and holding the specific attributes, wearing tiger-skirt, garland with skulls and severed heads, bejewelled and partly set with semi-precious stones, his four-faced head with wrathful expression, skull tiara around chignon set with visvavajra and half-moon emblems, embracing his female consort who is holding kapala and kattrika and large flaming aureol behind, sealed
18 cm high
Provenance
J. Pereya Kafer
A. Giardone, Buenos Aires 1977
A. Giardone, Buenos Aires 1977
Literature
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Arte Tibetano, Buenos Aires 1958, no. 110
Exhibited
Nacional Museum de Arte Oriental, Arte del Himalaya, Buenos Aires 1980
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