SUBJECT in gilded bronze, depicting Shadbhuja Mahakala, looking wrathful, standing on a lotiform base, crushing a figure symbolising ignorance, holding in his hands a "kartrika" cleaver, a "kapala" cup, a necklace of skulls and a "damaru" drum. His spiky hair, with a snake running through it, is crowned with a mundamala made up of five citipati heads representing the five poisons (desire, hatred, ignorance, pride and jealousy), and he is dressed in tiger skin. (Traces of polychromy). Tibet, 18th century. A GILT BRONZE FIGURE OF SHADBHUJA MAHAKALA, TIBET, 18TH CENTURY. HEIGHT. 18 CM (7 1/16 IN.)