Cast in the form of the yidam and consort standing in alidhasana on trampled figures, birds and bovine animals, all atop of a lotus base with a beaded upper edge, the buffalo-headed yidam portrayed ferocious with bulging eyes and a gaping mouth, surmounted by flaming hair above severed skulls, with thirty-two outstretched arms and a pair wrapped around the consort, holding in some of his hands implements and ritual weapons, the consort rendered in ecstatic union with the yidam and holding a kapala filled with amrita in the raised left hand and a kartrika in the right, the bases crowns, the arms, the wrists and the legs decorated with beaded jewellery ornamented with semi-precious turquoise stones. In very good conditions for a figure of thisplexity, the figure is detachable from the base and the group of the arms, some semi-precious stones missing, the base with a knock and the bronze with a very good gilding patina with light wears and light scratches.20,5 cm high, 14,5 cm wideA RARE GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF YAMANTAKA AND VAJRAVETALI, SINO-TIBET, QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURYProvenance: from the private collection of an important Italian ambassador and thence by descent