A TIBETO CHINESE GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF PROBABLY MAHAKALA WITH CONSORT, the nine headed figure standing in pratyalidhasana on human figures on a separately cast lotus base, wearing dharmapala ornaments, the sixteen radiating arms holding, partly lost, attributes, in his right principal hand a vajra, the consort holding a kapala in her left, a karttrika in her right hand, on his back a flayed elephant skin and spreaded wings, the nine cold-gilded and polychrome painted ferocious faces, crowned with skulls and surmounted by red painted flaming hairdress, 19th Century