An Attractive Mid 20thC North African Polychrome Carved Wooden Ceremonial Face Mask

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An Attractive Mid 20thC North African Polychrome Carved Wooden Ceremonial Face MaskOrigin: Moroccan Period: Mid Twentieth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1940 60 Height: 15. 5 inches Width: 6. 5 inches Depth: 5 inches (all at maximum) The ceremonial carved wood dance mask having a domed oval face with slit eyes, long aquiline nose and mouth, polychrome covered with an ebony and ivory pigment, surmounted with pecking bird headdress. The mask is in superb overall order with only small scuffs and softened wear to edgings

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and the eyes have rather menacing highlights in red

The ceremonial carved wood dance mask having a domed oval face with slit eyes

This form of cauldron was much produced of old and the design was generic throughout much of the British Isles

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the base with four scrolling foliate corner supports surrounding further interlocking central foliate designs

having a top and front polychrome painted with swallows frolicking amongst a blossoming tree

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Period: Late Nineteenth Century

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