A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF VAJRABHAIRAVA

Description:

Tibeto-Chinese. 18th c.
H. 16,5 cm
Standing with his multiple legs in pratyalidhasana on a separate cast lotus base trampling various animals and divinities, embracing his consort with his principle arms and its hands holding karttrika and kapala, the other arms radiating around his body with their hands showing various gestures and attributes, his nine faced head with central bull face displaying a wrathful expression with protruding eyes below raised eyebrows, snout, open mouth showing fangs and teeth, a pair of horns and pricked ears, flaming hairdo and his consort holding as well karttrika and kapala, unsealed.
Old German private collection, assembled before 1990 - Very minor traces of age, attributes partly lost