A BRONZE GROUP OF CHAKRASAMVARA AND VAJRAVARAHI

Description:

Nepal, ca. 18th c.
H. 31,5 cm
Trampling together in pratyalidhasana on Bhairava and Kalaratri reclining on the lotus-base, his six pairs of arms radiate around his body, the principle ones embracing his consort and the hands holding vajra and ghanta, the others with the prescribed attributes, wearing skirt, elephant-skin around his shoulders, bejewelled, his four-faced head displaying severe expressions with protruding eyes below raised eyebrows, his hairdo combed in a chignon decorated with half-moon and half-vajra emblems, his consort holding karttrika and kapala, wearing skirt and bejewelled, unsealed.
From the collection of Gerd-Wolfgang Essen (1930-2007), assembled between the 1950s and 1980s
Traces of age, wear