A MASSIVE CHINESE GILT BRONZE MODEL OF YAMA QING OR LATER Standing in pratyalidhasana on a human...

A MASSIVE CHINESE GILT BRONZE MODEL OF YAMA

QING OR LATER

Standing in pratyalidhasana on a human figure which lies prone on a bull, he wears a flayed elephant skin on his back and dharmapala ornaments, holding in his twelve arms tantric symbols including gada, danda, damaru and kapa, his sakti holds a kapala and a karttrka, all upon a double lotus base, the hair and details with traces of cold paint and inset with turquoise, 35cm.