A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF YAMA

Description:

Tibeto-Chinese, 18th/ 19th c.
H. 13,5 cm (o.S.)
Standing in alidhasana with both hands raised in the tarjanimudra, wearing skirt, channavira, mala of severed heads, bejewelled, his bull-faced head displaying a wrathful expression with bulging eyes below bushy eyebrows, open mouth showing double row of teeth and fangs and his red coloured flaming hairdo secured with a tiara set with skulls.
Old Bavarian private collection, assembled in the 1970s and 80s
Slightly chipped, attributes and base lost, mounted on a stand