An antique tsakli painting, Tibet, 19th Century depicting, within a ring of stylised flames centred on a red nimbus is a standing very wrathful, glaring-eyed 6armed winged Heruka deity with 4 legs in yabyum with his Sakti. He has 3 angry faces, and holds in his hands variously an impled, flayed wretch on a staff, a dorje-tipped axe and a blue jewel in his right hands; a sun and moon-topped pustaka (holy book) and a skull cup in his left hands which are in tarjani mudra. His consort holds a skull cup filled with matter. He wears copious quantities of gold and bone jewellery, a skull diadem,a flayed elephant skin and a tiger skin dhoti; a garland of dark severed heads and skulls - she wears a leopard skin dhoti and bone ornaments, as they trample wretches beneath their feet. Bon? 2 lines of text to the reverse - 8.2 x 12cm