A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF HAYAGRIVA

Estimated Value:

2.500 € - 3.500 €

Result:

3.885 € incl. Premium and VAT

Description:

Tibet, 17th/ 18th c.
H. 8 (12,5) cm
Standing in pratyalidhasana on a shaped plinth set on a base cast with floralized ornaments, both hands in the tarjanimudra, wearing skirt, scarf floating around his shoulders, garland of severed heads, channavira, snake-ornaments, bejewelled, his face displaying a fierce expression with bulging eyes below raised eyebrows, open mouth showing fangs and a double row of teeth, elongated earlobes with ear-ornaments, red coloured flaming hairdo set with a horse-head and secured with a skull tiara, unsealed.
German private collection, expertise Galerie Asboth Vienna, probably made in the 1990s - Very minor wear, base added, attributes lost

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