BHAIRAVA STELE INDIA - XIE CENTURY
Sandstone
Depicted naked and bearded, he wears macabre ornaments such as a garland of severed heads. Fragmentary, he holds a sword (khadga), a shield, a cranial cup (kapala) and a severed head. A stray dog licks the blood from the severed neck (Restoration).
A grey sandstone figure of a standing Bhairava
India - 11th century
154 x 65 x 22 cm
Provenance :
- Former English private collection, before 2004
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