A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE DEPICTING VAJRAVARAHI TIBET, 18TH CENTURY

the deity with three-pointed crown, wearing necklaces, a garland of severed heads and a tiger skin around the waist, holding a kartrika in the primary right hand and a kapala in the primary left hand, holding a damaru in the secondary right hand with the secondary left hand in tarjani mudra, standing in alidhasana atop a lotus throne

Wear and accretion overall. With traces of cold-gilding and polychroming at hands, face and hair. With minor curvature to chopper blade in primary right hand. With separately cast and unassociated base.
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