STATUETTE DE SHADBHUJA MAHAKALA EN ALLIAGE DE CUIVRE DORÉDYNASTIE QING, XVIIIE SIÈCLEHimalayan Art Resources item no. 487317.5 cm (6 7/8 in.) highProvenance: A GILT COPPER ALLOY FIGURE OF SHADBHUJA MAHAKALAQING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY清 十八世紀 銅鎏金六臂大黑天像Provenance:With Claude de Marteau, Brussels, by 1970sPresented with flaming, flickering hair, Shadbhuja Mahakala wildly dances over the trampled body of Vinayaka, the Creator of Obstacles. His principal hands clutch a hooked knife and blood-filled skull cup. After the Gelugpa order swore an allegiance to the Manchu emperors of the Qing empire, devotional images of their chief protector, this six-armed form of Mahakala, became widespread in China and Mongolia. For other 18th century examples of this wrathful deity, see a figure in the Art Institute of Chicago (1924.120), and another sold at , New York, 19 March 2018, lot 3054.