Sale 1640
New York
|
30 March 2006
Price realised
USD 11,400
Estimate
A bronze face mask of a Buddha Thailand, Ayutthaya, 15th century The oval face with a serene expression, crisply and sensitively delineated lips, straight nose joining arched brows, the heavy-lidded eyes cast downward, framed by delicately curved eyebrows echoed by the hairline, the separately cast back of the head now missing 11¼ in. (29 cm.) high
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