A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF PALDEN LHAMO AND STAND QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY The fierce goddess is seated sideways on a flayed skin on top of a mule over a separately cast rocky base carved with waves surrounding a sea of swirling blood. The figure is shown with her right arm upraised and left holding a kapala , adorned in beaded jewellery and a garland of severed heads over her shoulders. Her wrathful face is cast with bulging eyes and a third eye on the forehead, below flame-like hair. There are traces of red pigment to the sea, hair, mouth and the kapala . 11 ¼ in. (27.5 cm.) high
A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF PALDEN LHAMO AND STAND QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY The fierce goddess is seated sideways on a flayed skin on top of a mule over a separately cast rocky base carved with waves surrounding a sea of swirling blood. The figure is shown with her right arm upraised and left holding a kapala , adorned in beaded jewellery and a garland of severed heads over her shoulders. Her wrathful face is cast with bulging eyes and a third eye on the forehead, below flame-like hair. There are traces of red pigment to the sea, hair, mouth and the kapala . 11 ¼ in. (27.5 cm.) high
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