A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF MAHAKALA QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY

depicted lunging in alidhasana over an elephant-headed entity, the wrathful divinity holding a kartrika and kapala in his primary hands, with one hand in karana mudra and the other holding a damaru, stretching an elephant skin (now missing) across his back, with an animal skin around his waist, lavishly adorned with a necklace of severed heads, snakes and a billowing scarf, the ferocious face with three eyes and an open mouth and crowned with flaming hair, the base of the lotus pedestal sealed with a consecration plate engraved with a visvavajra