A fine gilt-bronze of Vajrapani on a lotus

Description:

Mongolia, 18th/ early 19th cent.
H. 18,6 cm
Standing in pratyalidhasana on a separate cast lotus base decorated with a pair of curling snakes, his raised right hand brandishing the vajra while the left is grasping the pasha, wearing tiger-skirt, scarf floating around his shoulders, bejewelled, his face displaying a wrathful expression with bulging eyes below raised bushy eyebrows, open mouth showing fangs and a double row of teeth, traces of painted facial details, his red coloured flaming hairdo decorated with a half-vajra and secured with a skull ornamented tiara, resealed.
Important South German private collection collected between 1956 and 2004, coll. no. 42, according to handwritten note on the collection card acquired from Ostasiatica Kuo in Berlin - Minim. traces of age