A VERY RARE SILVER-INLAID BRONZE MANDALA OF VAJRAVARAHI PALA, 11-12TH CENTURY The deity stands in dancing posture over two prone bodies on the centre of a lotus flower, her right hand holding the karttrika and her left supporting the kapala and khatvanga . Adorned with a festooned belt and jewellery inlaid with silver, her face displays a wrathful expression and is decorated with a boar head and a skull tiara. She is surrounded by eight movable petals, the one behind her engraved with a Kandaroha standing in pratyalidhasana over a prostrate figure, and the seven petals each with a kalasa to the inside, all supported by an elaborate openwork stalk composed of floral and leaf motifs over a circular base with braided rims. The lower section of the base with an inscription. 7 7/8 in. (20 cm.) high Provenance Acquired from an Asian private collector on 12 October 1989
A VERY RARE SILVER-INLAID BRONZE MANDALA OF VAJRAVARAHI PALA, 11-12TH CENTURY The deity stands in dancing posture over two prone bodies on the centre of a lotus flower, her right hand holding the karttrika and her left supporting the kapala and khatvanga . Adorned with a festooned belt and jewellery inlaid with silver, her face displays a wrathful expression and is decorated with a boar head and a skull tiara. She is surrounded by eight movable petals, the one behind her engraved with a Kandaroha standing in pratyalidhasana over a prostrate figure, and the seven petals each with a kalasa to the inside, all supported by an elaborate openwork stalk composed of floral and leaf motifs over a circular base with braided rims. The lower section of the base with an inscription. 7 7/8 in. (20 cm.) high Provenance Acquired from an Asian private collector on 12 October 1989
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