A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF SHRI DEVI

Description:

Tibeto-Chinese, 18th c.
H. 14,3 cm (o.S.)
Seated astride her trotting mule, her right arm raised while the left hand is placed in front of her chest supporting the kapala, wearing skirt, wide-sleeved coat, scarf floating around her shoulders, garland of severed heads, snake draped around her neck, her face displaying a wrathful expression with bulging eyes below raised bushy eyebrows, her mouth holding minute figure, elongated earlobes with large ear-ornaments, red-coulored flaming hairdo secured with a tiara and decorated with five skulls.
South German private collection, acquired at Sotheby's London, 14.5.2014, lot 85