A TIBETO CHINESE GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF SADBHUJAMAHAKALA, standing in pratyalidhasana on a separately cast lying Ganesha on lotus base, his six arms radiating, holding karttrika, damaru, mala, elephant skin, pasa and kapala, wearing dharmapala ornaments, mala of skulls, channavira, all partly set with coral and turquoise, the fringed ferocious face with opened mouth showing fangs and teeth, crowned by five skulls and a red painted flaming hairdress with a snake, sealed, 17th/18th Century

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A TIBETO CHINESE GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF SADBHUJAMAHAKALA, standing in pratyalidhasana on a separately cast lying Ganesha on lotus base, his six arms radiating, holding karttrika, damaru, mala, elephant skin, pasa and kapala, wearing dharmapala ornaments, mala of skulls, channavira, all partly set with coral and turquoise, the fringed ferocious face with opened mouth showing fangs and teeth, crowned by five skulls and a red painted flaming hairdress with a snake, sealed, 17th/18th Century
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