A Tibetan fire gilt copper alloy figure of Shadbhuja Mahakala. 18/19th century

A Tibetan fire gilt copper alloy figure of Shadbhuja Mahakala. 18/19th century Of two parts. The six-armed deity with a furiously wrathful face and bristling hair, standing atop an elephant-headed demon, who reclines on a lotus base, holding a skull-shaped bowl and a radish. The protector has a tiger skin wrapped around his hips and an elephant skin draped over his back; his head is adorned with a skull crown and his body with necklaces made of human heads and snakes. His primary pair of hands holds a kartika and a kapala, the upper secondary hand a skull-mala, the lower secondary hand a damaru, while the other two attributes are lost. Paper scroll inside the figure. Baseplate. Height 14 cm

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