A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF SHRI DEVI

Estimated Value:

1.200 € - 1.800 €

Result:

2.849 € incl. Premium and VAT

Description:

Tibet, early 19th cent.
H. 11,2 cm
Seated astride her caparisoned mule trotting over the sea of blood encompassed by a mountain range, her raised right hand originally holding an attribute while the left is supporting the kapala, wearing tiger-skirt, scarf floating around her shoulders, garland of severed heads, bejewelled, her face displaying a wrathful expression with open eyes below raised bushy eyebrows, her red coloured flaming hair secured with a tiara decorated with skulls and floating ribbons, resealed.
Important South German private collection assembled between 1956 and 2004, coll. no. 76, this bronze was bought at Lempertz Cologne, June 1996, Lot 92 - Minim. traces of age, attribute lost

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