Sale 8780
New York, Park Avenue
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20 November 1997
Price realised
USD 2,530
Estimate
FOUR BAULE BRASS MASKETTES Each cast as a trophy head with elaborate coiffure, two with keloids cast in relief, two with plaited triangular beards, another with plain triangular beard, the last with beard composed of six spiralling projections, the largest pierced through the eyes (4)
Provenance
The mask at the top of the illustration was purchased from George Rodrigues; the mask center left in the illustration from Maurice Bonnefoy; and the mask at the bottom from Merton Simpson.
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Literature
Cole and Ross, 1977, p. 73, fig. 154, for the largest
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