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Property from a Private East Coast Collection
A gilt bronze figure of Vajrabhairava and Vajra Vetali
TIBETO-CHINESE, 18TH CENTURY
Details
A gilt bronze figure of Vajrabhairava and Vajra Vetali
Tibeto-Chinese, 18th century
The pair in embrace striding in alidhasana on prostrate animals and figures over a lotus base, adorned with garlands of skulls and severed heads, holding a skull cup and chopper in their primary hands, he with additional accoutrements in the other thirty-two hands radiating about him, with a ferocious bull's face surmounted by additional stacked faces, the hair in flames, the base sealed with a double-vajra
7¾ in. (19.6 cm.) high
Tibeto-Chinese, 18th century
The pair in embrace striding in alidhasana on prostrate animals and figures over a lotus base, adorned with garlands of skulls and severed heads, holding a skull cup and chopper in their primary hands, he with additional accoutrements in the other thirty-two hands radiating about him, with a ferocious bull's face surmounted by additional stacked faces, the hair in flames, the base sealed with a double-vajra
7¾ in. (19.6 cm.) high
Provenance
Collection of Lewis Perry, United States, before 1949
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