A PAINTING OF WHITE MAHAKALA
Lot 949

A PAINTING OF WHITE MAHAKALA

TIBET, 18TH-19TH CENTURY

Closed24 September 2020

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A PAINTING OF WHITE MAHAKALA
TIBET, 18TH-19TH CENTURY
The wealth deity shown at center standing on prostrate figures of Ganapati holding flaming jewels, a skull cup, a damaru, a curved knife, a trident and a goad in his six hands backed by an aureale of flames, set within a mountainous landscape with images of Jambhala and offering goddesses above and below with a mahasiddha at top center
25 ¼ x 17 1/8 in. (64.1 x 43.5 cm.)

Nik Douglas, British Virgin Islands, 17 December 1982.
The James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection, Chicago.