15th century, Tibet, female adept or Buddhist goddess, gilt copper, 15,8 cm, photo: courtesy of Ulrich von Schroeder, Buddhist Sculptures in Tibet Volume Two, Visual Dharma Publications, Hong Kong, p. 1073 pl. 276B, Potala Collection, Bla ma lha khang inventory nº 1039, Lhasa (Tibet).
An intriguing figure with a wrathful countenance and a skull crown, yet her hair is dyed with blue pigment instead of the red-orange colour usually seen on wrathful deities. The author suggests this could be a portrait of Machig Labdron, whom we have seen depicted as a wisdom dakini, with three eyes, blue hair, a five-skull crown, bone jewellery, standing on her left foot and holding a drum and a bell.
16th-17th century, Tibet, Machig Labdron, gilt copper, 19,5 cm, photo as before, p. 1055 pl. 267B, at the Palkor Chode monastic complex in Gyantse (Tibet).
Here she has a skull cup in her left hand. We saw another example on Bonhams , and a seated one at the Penn Museum .
15th century, Tibet, Machik Labdrön, painted clay (on a wooden armature), no size given, photo by Dudul Dorjay, 2011, on virginia.edu, at the Shije shrine in the Kumbum, Gyantse (Tibet).
This image is placed next to a larger one of Padampa Sangye. Machig Labdron holds a drum in her right hand and probably had an attribute in the other (of which the forefinger is missing).