Mahakala Gilt copper alloy Tibet

Lunging to his right in pratyalidha, the fighting posture, with a fierce expression and fiery eyebrows, beard and moustache, and flaming hair tied by a snake, the six armed dharmapala wearing skull crown, earrings and jewelry with a tiger-skin loincloth and a garland of severed heads, and holding the mala, damaru, kartrika, kapala, pasha, the handle of a trishula and the feet of a flayed elephant skin in his uppermost hands.

Acquired Koller Zurich, 1970's-1980's

In good condition overall. Rubbings to the gilding and some accretion. The separately cast base now missing. The trisula broken in the left upper hand, the handle remaining. The index finger of the left middle hand broken. Two legs of the elephant skin, the feet of which are held in the upper hands, were separately cast and now missing, the points of attachment visible. Traces of pigment. No restoration.
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Compare the vigorous movement and similar modeling of a fifteenth or sixteenth century Vajrapani, see Ulrich von Schroeder, Indo-Tibetan Bronzes, Hong Kong, 1981, p. 436, no. 116A.