A RARE SMALL GILT BRONZE FIGURE OF MAHAKALA, Tibet, 18th century

h cm 10

Depicted in his six-armed legden form in alidhasana position, holding in the main hands a curved knife and a skullcup, in the secondary arms holding a rosary made of skulls and a staff with a skull terminal, a damaru (drum), and a lasso in the lower two hands, while trampling supine Ganapati.