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TIBET, 17TH CENTURY
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A gilt bronze figure of Mahakala
Tibet, 17th century
Seated on a crouching human figure, wearing a tiger skin around his waist and a billowing sash around his shoulders, adorned with multiple necklaces, a snake and a garland of severed heads, holding a chopper in his right hand and a skull cup in his left, the face with three bulging eyes and mouth opened in a ferocious expression, the flaming polychromed hair crowned with a skull tiara
5½ in. (14 cm.) high
Tibet, 17th century
Seated on a crouching human figure, wearing a tiger skin around his waist and a billowing sash around his shoulders, adorned with multiple necklaces, a snake and a garland of severed heads, holding a chopper in his right hand and a skull cup in his left, the face with three bulging eyes and mouth opened in a ferocious expression, the flaming polychromed hair crowned with a skull tiara
5½ in. (14 cm.) high
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