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TIBET, 13TH CENTURY
Details
A bronze figure of Hevajra and Nairatmya
Tibet, 13th century
The deities in embrace striding in alidhasana over prone figures on a double-lotus base with beaded rims, she holding a skullcup and curved knife and he holding skullcups supporting human and animal deities in his arms arrayed around them, his eight heads gazing in different directions, surmounted by flaming hair with a double-vajra ornament
5 in. (12.7 cm.) high
Tibet, 13th century
The deities in embrace striding in alidhasana over prone figures on a double-lotus base with beaded rims, she holding a skullcup and curved knife and he holding skullcups supporting human and animal deities in his arms arrayed around them, his eight heads gazing in different directions, surmounted by flaming hair with a double-vajra ornament
5 in. (12.7 cm.) high
Provenance
Onno Janssens Collection, Netherlands, acquired in Antwerp, 1996