A fine Sino-Tibetan gilt-bronze figure of Mahakala, 18th C.

H.: 22,7 cm

Weight: 3154 grams

Elaborately cast striding in pratyalidha on a prostrate figure of an elephant-headed deity on a separately-cast lotus pedestal with the principal hands holding a kartika and skull bowl, the other hand with a skull rosary and the feet of an elephant skin draped across his back, wearing a tiger-skin skirt tied around his bulging belly, heavily embellished with a garland of severed heads and beaded jewellery, the wrathful face surmounted by flamelike hair behind the skull crown.

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