Krodha Vighnantaka Copper alloy inlaid with silver and copper Tibet

Sotheby's, New York, 1 April 2005, lot 56

Please note the medium of this lot is copper alloy inlaid with silver and copper, not copper alloy as published in the catalogue.
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The six-armed and three-headed wrathful deity with principal hands crossed in prajnalinganabhinaya mudra, wielding a khadga and a now fragmentary vajra-handled ritual instrument in the right hands, and two padma buds in the left hands, wearing a tiger-skin dhoti, crowns on each head and snake jewelery, the eyes and teeth inlaid with silver, and the flaming eyebrows and lips inlaid with copper, and copper inlay to the tiger-skin and crown band.

Compare two multi-armed wrathful silver and copper-inlaid bronzes ascribed to eastern India, both with similar lotus pedestals designed to be attached to a larger setting by means of a lug-protruding verso; see U. von Schroeder, Buddhist Sculptures in Tibet, India and Nepal, Hong Kong, 2001, pl. 99A-B, p. 296, and pl. 101A-B, p. 300.