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Property from a Private East Coast Collection
A gilt bronze figure of Yama Dharmaraja and Chamunda
TIBETO-CHINESE, 18TH CENTURY
Details
A gilt bronze figure of Yama Dharmaraja and Chamunda
Tibeto-Chinese, 18th century
Yama striding in alidhasana on the back of a buffalo over a prostrate figure on a lotus base, his hands raised in vitarkamudra, adorned with festoons, ribbons, and a garland of severed heads, the wrathful bull's face with bared fangs and bulging eyes surmounted by shocks of flaming hair, Chamunda balancing before him dressed in a deer skin, the fearsome face with third eye flanked by foliate earrings and surmounted by a skull tiara, the base sealed with a double-vajra
7 in. (17.7 cm.) high
Tibeto-Chinese, 18th century
Yama striding in alidhasana on the back of a buffalo over a prostrate figure on a lotus base, his hands raised in vitarkamudra, adorned with festoons, ribbons, and a garland of severed heads, the wrathful bull's face with bared fangs and bulging eyes surmounted by shocks of flaming hair, Chamunda balancing before him dressed in a deer skin, the fearsome face with third eye flanked by foliate earrings and surmounted by a skull tiara, the base sealed with a double-vajra
7 in. (17.7 cm.) high
Provenance
Collection of Lewis Perry, United States, before 1949
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