Small gilt copper alloy statuette representing the Palden Lhamo deity, 20th century Tibet. Seated on a mule, holding a cranial cup in the left hand with snakes emerging from the skull, the right hand raised in karana mudra and with finely incised details. The whole resting on a lotiform base. Traces of polychromy. Palden Lhamo is known as the wrathful protector of wisdom and the chief protector of Tibet. H. 11 cm