A THANGKA DEPICTING GARWA NAKPO MONGOLIA, 19TH CENTURY

the protector in brocade robes seated atop a blue mule, shown against a background of flames in a lake of blood surrounded by wild animals, wearing the five-pointed skull crown, holding the vajra iron aloft in the raised right hand and the blacksmith's bellows with tiger skin in the left hand, an array of wrathful offerings filling the lower register

Navin Kumar Gallery, 1979. 

Wear, creasing, losses to pigment and water staining throughout, most notably in upper and lower registers. Not examined outside of frame.
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Himalayan Art Resources item no. 12904