Description:

Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Lombok Island, ca. early to mid 20th century CE. A hand-carved wooden mask depicting an expressive and highly stylized anthropomorphic face. The countenance presents with bulging hemispherical eyes, a broad nose with delineated nostrils, parted lips revealing a row of teeth, and gently curving eye brows lined with applied tufts of coarse hair. The peripheries are lined with a three drilled suspension holes on the cheeks and forehead, and layers of original red, yellow, orange, and dark-brown pigment are visible across the composition. Size: 5.3" W x 7.75" H (13.5 cm x 19.7 cm); 10.8" H (27.4 cm) on included custom stand.

Provenance: private Johnson collection, Los Angeles, California, USA

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#147530

  • Condition: Losses to areas of hair tufts along eye brows. Small repair to nose along verso. Minor abrasions to face, peripheries, and verso, with fading to areas of original pigmentation, and light encrustations within some recessed areas. Light earthen deposits and nice traces of original pigmentation throughout.

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