A TIBETO CHINESE GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF ACALA, with one leg kneeled and one raised on a separately cast lying Ganesha on lotus base, wearing a separately moulded vajra mala, a scarf, a tiger-skin skirt, his right raised hand a khadga, his left in vitarkamudra, the angry cold-gilded face fringed, the opened mouth showing fangs, wearing a five-leaf crown and a red painted flaming hairdress, resealed, late 18th Century
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A TIBETO CHINESE GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF ACALA, with one leg kneeled and one raised on a separately cast lying Ganesha on lotus base, wearing a separately moulded vajra mala, a scarf, a tiger-skin skirt, his right raised hand a khadga, his left in vitarkamudra, the angry cold-gilded face fringed, the opened mouth showing fangs, wearing a five-leaf crown and a red painted flaming hairdress, resealed, late 18th Century
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