A BRONZE FIGURE OF ACALA, TIBET, 13th/14th ct., trampling in alidhasana on a divinity and elephant lying on the lotus base, his raised right hand brandishing the sword while the left is showing the tarjanimudra and holding a pasha, wearing tiger-skirt, scarf draped around his shoulders, bejewelled, his face displaying a ferocious expression with protruding eyes below arched eyebrows, urna, open mouth showing fangs, beard framing his chin, the red coloured hair combed in a chignon set to the front with a three-leaf tiara decorated with a pair of flower-heads and floating ribbons, a mandorla behind cast with flower-heads and a flaming rim, traces of cold-gilding, with inventory number BT 104, unsealed - Minor wear, fingers of the left hand partly chipped