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LOT 0068
Hellenistic Terracotta Theatre Mask
2ND-1ST CENTURY B.C.
2 3/8 in. (45 grams, 60 mm).
Modelled as a grotesque male head with gaping crescent-shaped mouth, pointed nose, furrowed brow and thick mop of hair around the head; pierced at the upper face.
ProvenanceAcquired in the mid 1980s-1990s.
Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent.
Private collection, since the late 1990s.
See The Getty Museum, accession no. 96.AQ.193, for a similar mask in lamp form.
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