Lot 45 Dα

A magnificent Tibetan thangka of Hevajra and Nairatmya. 19th century

The blue-skinned deity dancing in yab-yum over prostrate figures on a lotus base and backed by a flaming mandorla, he holding skull cups containing eight deities and eight animals in his sixteen hands and she holding a skull cup and curved knife, both crowned deities wearing nothing but finely outlined bone aprons and garlands of dried skulls and freshly severed heads, flanked by monks, lamas and siddhas at the upper area and the eight dakinis from his mandala and further figures below. Inscription to the reverse. Framed and glazed.
80 x 56 cm