Description:
Tibet, 18th cent.
H. 10,3 cm
Standing in pratyalidhasana on a separate cast pair of figures reclining on the lotus base, his raised right hand holding the vajra while the left is showing the tarjanimudra, wearing tiger-skirt, scarf floating around his shoulders, channavira, bejewelled, his face displaying a wrathful expression with bulging eyes below bushy eyebrows, beard framing his chin, painted facial details and his red coloured flaming hairdo secured with a tiara consisting of skulls, face and body partly cold-gilded, resealed.
An important private collection from southern Germany, assembled between 1956 and 2007, collection no. 20077, according to tradition bought from Macht Munich July 1994 - Minor wear to gilding