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TIBETO-CHINESE, 18TH CENTURY
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A Gilt Bronze Figure of Yama Dharmaraja
Tibeto-Chinese, 18th Century
Very crisply cast with the wrathful deity striding in alidhasana with hands in tarjani mudra over a recumbent buffalo with prostrated figure underneath, wearing a garland of heads and beaded festooned jewelry decorated with vajras and chakra wheels, his headdress with painted skulls issuing festoons and wavy banners at the sides, his expressive face polychromed with bulging eyes, flaming brows and bared fangs and crowned by flaming hair
10¼ in.(25.8 cm.) high
Tibeto-Chinese, 18th Century
Very crisply cast with the wrathful deity striding in alidhasana with hands in tarjani mudra over a recumbent buffalo with prostrated figure underneath, wearing a garland of heads and beaded festooned jewelry decorated with vajras and chakra wheels, his headdress with painted skulls issuing festoons and wavy banners at the sides, his expressive face polychromed with bulging eyes, flaming brows and bared fangs and crowned by flaming hair
10¼ in.(25.8 cm.) high