Lot 950
  • 950

A GILT COPPER ALLOY FIGURE OF KRODHA BHURKUMKUTA TIBETO-CHINESE, 18TH CENTURY |

Estimate
7,000 - 9,000 USD
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Description

  • Height: 6 3/4 in, 17.1 cm.
the six armed, three headed deity stepping vigorously to the right in alidhasana, holding implements including a vajra and ghanta, wearing garlands made of skulls, his wrathful faces surmounted by a skull tiara emerging from flaming orange hair Himalayan Art Resources item no. 13623.

Provenance

E&J Frankel, New York. 

Condition

In good overall condition. With traces of orange and red polychromy visible on the hair, mouth eyes and beard. The figure and base cast separately and attached with two screws. On implement missing in the top proper right arm and two implements now missing from the top and middle proper left hands. Some accretion and loss of the gilding throughout.
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