early 19th century

Painting, on European paper, varnished, depicting the Yaksha General, standing facing the front, blue-skinned, tusked and bearded. He wears an elaborate headdress surmounted by a 'pineapple' crown, and necklaces and armlets all rendered in red and yellow. Round his loins is a striped skirtclothin white and red. In his right hand he holds a disc and in his left a white club. Facing towards him on each side is a similar-coloured Yaksha attendant. The background is red.