A gilt copper alloy figure of Vajrapani
A gilt copper alloy figure of Vajrapani
18th century
The wrathful deity with a fierce face and skull crown fronting his flame-red hair, dressed in a billowing shoulder scarf with snakes and necklaces of jewels and skulls hanging over his tiger skin dhoti, his raised right hand wielding a vajra and his left hand held in karana mudra as he strides in pratyalidha with his feet resting on snakes rising from a separately cast single-layer lotus petal plinth.
4 1/4in (10.8cm) high
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A gilt copper alloy figure of Vajrapani
18th century
The wrathful deity with a fierce face and skull crown fronting his flame-red hair, dressed in a billowing shoulder scarf with snakes and necklaces of jewels and skulls hanging over his tiger skin dhoti, his raised right hand wielding a vajra and his left hand held in karana mudra as he strides in pratyalidha with his feet resting on snakes rising from a separately cast single-layer lotus petal plinth.
4 1/4in (10.8cm) high
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