IMPRESSIVE LARGE VAJRAYOGINI.
Nepal. Ca. 1900.

Bronze with gilding and pigments. Multi-piece: Lower arms set in; lotus base with two separate figures and separate katvanga staff. She is standing on Kalaratri and Bhairava on a lotus base. With her raised left hand she drinks from a kapala bowl; in her right
hand she wields a kathriki chopper with vajra. Around her shoulder and reaching to her thighs she is adorned with a chain of thirty freshly chopped skulls.

Vajrayogini; or Naro Khechari (tibet: dor je nal jor ma; na ro kha cho) belongs to the group of Dakini and this representation symbolizes the entire Buddhas in female form. She is also seen as wisdom or as mother. She was introduced to the Himalayan region through the Indian master Naropa and is still revered in the Gelug school. Height overall 110cm; figure 78cm. Condition A/B.Art trade; Van Ham.