A PARCEL GILT-COPPER EMBOSSED FIGURE OF A TANTRIC DIVINITY, POSSIBLY MAHAKALA

Description:

Tibet, late 18th ct.
H. 66 cm (o.S.)
Standing in pratyalidhasana, his six arms radiating around his body with the hands showing a form of tarjanimudra, wearing tiger-skirt, snake-male, channavira, bejewelled, his face displaying a wrathful expression with deep-set eyes below bushy eyebrows, third-eye, open mouth framed by moustache and beard, elongated earlobes and a red coloured flaming hairdo.
Former old European private collection, assembled before 1990
Partly rest. and chipped, wear