AN UNUSUAL GILT-BRONZE FEMALE ATTENDANT FIGURE

Description:

Tibeto-Chinese, 18th/ 19th ct.
H. 9,5 cm (o. S.)
Standing in alidhasana with both arms raised, the hands originally holding attributes, wearing tiger-skirt, channavira, bejewelled, her face displaying a wrathful expression with bulging eyes below raised eyebrows, open mouth, elongated earlobes, her hair combed backwards and topped with a skull, mounted on a wood stand.
European private collection, assembled before 2007
Minor wear