A fine fire-gilt bronze of the Jambhala on a lotus

Description:

Mongolia, 18th/ early 19th cent.
H. 11,6 cm
Standing in pratyalidhasana on a figure reclining on the lotus base, his right hand holding the lemon while the left the mongoose, naked, ithyphallic, scarf floating around his shoulders, bejewelled, his face displaying a wrathful expression with bulging eyes below raised bushy eyebrows and his flaming hairdo secured with a tiara decorated with five skulls, re-sealed.
Important South German private collection assembled between 1956 and 2004, coll. no. 34, according to handwritten note on the collection card acquired from Ostasiatica Kuo in Berlin - Minim. traces of age