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A BRONZE FIGURE OF VAJRADHAKA
TIBET, 16TH CENTURY

The stout wrathful fgure rearing backward atop a lotus base, his
powerful arms crossed before his chest holding a vajra and ghanta,
wearing beaded jewelry and a garland of severed heads, his ferce
expression with bared fangs, a faming moustache and eyebrows, and
three bulging eyes surmounted by a skull diadem
6ƒ in. (16 cm.) high

$40,000-60,000

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