A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF CHAKRASAMVARA AND NAIRATMYA

Description:

Tibeto-Chinese, 18th c.
H. 10,8 cm
Standing in alidhasana on a pair of deities reclining on the lotus base, embracing his consort with his principle arms, the hands holding vajra and ghanta, the other arms radiating around his body with the hands holding the specific attributes, wearing tiger skirt, elephant skin draped over his back, garland of severed heads, bejewelled, his cold-gilded four faced head showing severe expressions below arched eyebrows, his blue coloured hair combed in a chignon secured with tiaras and his consort holding karttrika and kapala, resealed
Old European private collection - Minor wear and traces of age, few attributes lost