A TIBETAN COPPER FIGURE OF VAJRAVARAHI, standing in ardhaparyankasana, on top of a human body on a lotus throne, holding in her right a karttrika and in her left a kapala, wearing ornaments, some set with turquoise and two with skulls, the cold-gilded face with angry expression, a boar's head emanating from the right side of the head, crowned and with blue painted hair, unsealed, 13th Century
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A TIBETAN COPPER FIGURE OF VAJRAVARAHI, standing in ardhaparyankasana, on top of a human body on a lotus throne, holding in her right a karttrika and in her left a kapala, wearing ornaments, some set with turquoise and two with skulls, the cold-gilded face with angry expression, a boar's head emanating from the right side of the head, crowned and with blue painted hair, unsealed, 13th Century
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