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Lot 189
A BRONZE FIGURE OF PROBABLY VAJRAHUMKARA
Estimated Value:
900 € - 1.500 €
Schätzpreis:
900 €
Description:
Tibet, 18th/ 19th c.H. 18,7 cm
Standing in pratyalidhasana on a separate cast lotus base with his six arms radiating around his body, its principle hands showing the vajrahumkaramudra, wearing tigerskin skirt draped around his waist, bejewelled, his triple faced head displaying each a ferocious expression with protruding eyes below bushy eyebrows, open mouth showing a double row of teeth and fangs, beards, his flaming hairdo decorated with curling snakes and secured with tiaras ornamented with skulls, unsealed.
From an old southern German private collection, supplemented by inheritance in the 1950s and acquisitions in the 1960s to the 1980s - Partly chipped and corroded
