An Extremely rare gilt-bronze figure of seven-headed Marici Ming Dynasty, 15th / 16th century the goddess seated in dhyanasana, her two main arms held at chest-level in mantangi mudra, the attendant six arms held in various mudras radiating out from her body, her round benevolent face with heavy eyelids and an urna on the forehead framed by thick black curls on the head and long pendulous ear lobes, the subsidiary heads at the rear in a stylized boar and two ferocious aspects, the fourth head of Sakyamuni Buddha prodruding from the top of her head, dressed in a dhoti tied at the waist with floral hems exposing her bejeweled chest, the shoulders draped with a floral mantle and a flowing sash draped around the shoulders and arms 16 in., 40.6 cm
An Extremely rare gilt-bronze figure of seven-headed Marici Ming Dynasty, 15th / 16th century the goddess seated in dhyanasana, her two main arms held at chest-level in mantangi mudra, the attendant six arms held in various mudras radiating out from her body, her round benevolent face with heavy eyelids and an urna on the forehead framed by thick black curls on the head and long pendulous ear lobes, the subsidiary heads at the rear in a stylized boar and two ferocious aspects, the fourth head of Sakyamuni Buddha prodruding from the top of her head, dressed in a dhoti tied at the waist with floral hems exposing her bejeweled chest, the shoulders draped with a floral mantle and a flowing sash draped around the shoulders and arms 16 in., 40.6 cm
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