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18TH CENTURY
Details
A Tibeto Chinese gilt-bronze figure of Mahakala
18th century
Standing in alidhasana on a prostrated figure of a bull and a corpse over a lotus base (of a different figure), holding the chopper and skull cup in his principal hands, wearing a tiger skin, a garland of severed heads and a billowing scarf, his face with a ferocious expression with gaping mouth exposing fangs, a skull tiara and flaming hair, resealed
22.5 cm high
18th century
Standing in alidhasana on a prostrated figure of a bull and a corpse over a lotus base (of a different figure), holding the chopper and skull cup in his principal hands, wearing a tiger skin, a garland of severed heads and a billowing scarf, his face with a ferocious expression with gaping mouth exposing fangs, a skull tiara and flaming hair, resealed
22.5 cm high
Provenance
Collection dr. A. R. Beaux, Buenos Aires
Auctionhouse Roldan and Cia, Buenos Aires 1981, lot 104
Auctionhouse Roldan and Cia, Buenos Aires 1981, lot 104
Exhibited
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Arte del Tibet, Buenos Aires 1958, no. 47 (incorrectly identified as Yama)
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