An antique 19th Century or earlier (much earlier) tsakli painting in mineral pigments depicting, within a red-centred aureole, a 3 headed, blue-bodied, 6 armed winged Heruka deity with a fierce expression in yabyum with his green-bodied Sakti stands, his principal hands holding a red purbha, his secondary hands which are in tarjani mudra, the gesture of warning holding various attributes including a trisula, . His consort holds aloft a skull cup, as she wears her leopard skin dhoti and skull diadem. He wears a skull diadem which holds back his streaming yellow hair, a flayed elephant and a tiger-skin dhoti, as they trample upon their lotus throne. A lama's thumbprint blessing to the reverse side. 7.7 x 8.6cm