A GILT COPPER ALLOY FIGURE OF YAMA DHARMARAJA Tibet, 18th Century

standing in alidhasana with the right and left hands in vajra mudra, red hair streaming behind an abbreviated crown, mouth agape and fangs bared with three bulging eyes and flaming eyebrows, adorned a garland of severed heads and the six bone ornaments with raised beadwork 

Acquired in San Francisco, 2000. 

Wear to gilding and accretion overall. Traces of polychrome at hair and in mouth. Possible restoration to deity's member.
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Himalayan Art Resources item no. 12933