STATUE DE SHADBHUJA MAHAKALA EN ALLIAGE DE CUIVRE DORÉ DYNASTIE QING, XVIII/XIXE SIÈCLESTATUE DE SHADBHUJA MAHAKALA EN ALLIAGE DE CUIVRE DORÉDYNASTIE QING, XVIII/XIXE SIÈCLEHimalayan Art Resources item no. 4849 19.5 cm (7 5/8 in.) high A GILT COPPER ALLOY FIGURE OF SHADBHUJA MAHAKALAQING DYNASTY, 18TH/19TH CENTURY清 十八/十九世紀 銅鎏金六臂大黑天像Provenance: With Claude de Marteau, Brussels, by 1970sShadbhuja Mahakala erupts​ into a flurry of motion, his principal hands clutching a chopper and blood-filled skull cup (kapala) while he leans atop the trampled body of Vinayaka, the Creator of Obstacles. After the Gelugpa order swore an allegiance to the Manchu emperors of the Qing empire, devotional images of their chief protector, the six-armed form of Mahakala, became widespread in China and Mongolia. For other 18th-century examples of this wrathful deity, see a figure in The Art Institute of Chicago (1924.120), and another sold at Bonhams, New York, 19 March 2018, lot 3054.