Null Tibetan thangka "Mahakala" polychrome painting on canvas, depicting the six…

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Tibetan thangka "Mahakala" polychrome painting on canvas, depicting the six-armed blue-skinned god Mahakala in a flame aureole, wearing a tiger skin dhoti around his hips and a belt of human skulls, on his head a crown of skulls, holding numerous attributes with his hands, flanked by 3 further Mahakala figures, 19th century, framed 87x67cm, signs of age/creasing with loss of paint

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Tibetan thangka "Mahakala" polychrome painting on canvas, depicting the six-armed blue-skinned god Mahakala in a flame aureole, wearing a tiger skin dhoti around his hips and a belt of human skulls, on his head a crown of skulls, holding numerous attributes with his hands, flanked by 3 further Mahakala figures, 19th century, framed 87x67cm, signs of age/creasing with loss of paint

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