A pair of wooden grotesque masks
Lot 277

A pair of wooden grotesque masks

TIBET, 18TH/19TH CENTURY

Closed16 September 2014

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A pair of wooden grotesque masks
Tibet, 18th/19th century
The first with goatee and mustache, curling lips, bulging eyes, arched brows, and ornately delineated ears; the second resembling a skull with bared teeth, sunken cheeks and cleft nose
9 in. (22.7 cm.), the larger

Private collection, Europe, acquired in Paris, 10 October 1990