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LOT 2046
Life-Size Tibetan Style Buddhist Mask
20TH CENTURY A.D.
8 1/2 in. (939 grams, 21.6 cm).
Modelled as a grotesque grimacing face with exposed teeth and large eyes, pierced through the forehead; probably glass. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From the family collection of a Hampstead gentleman; formerly acquired in the 1980s.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
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