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TIBET, 18TH/19TH CENTURY
Details
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
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
Provenance
Private collection, Europe, acquired in Paris, 10 October 1990
Literature
Himalayan Art Resources (himalayanart.org), item nos. 23414 and 58751