Bhairava with Goddess

18th century

16.5 cm 25.3 cm 9.2 cm

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This blue god of ferocious form and ten arms is Bhairava, the angry manifestation of Shiva. In Nepal, he is popular with both Hindus and Buddhists and is also known as Mahakala. His posture is somewhere in between the militant "pratyalidha" posture of Bhairava and the bent-kne...

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de Sedley Gallery, New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; John and Berthe Ford, Baltimore, October 1965, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 2006, by gift.
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