Beautiful old theatre mask ·  Indonesia - Bali · ID: 3039565

Description

wood, polychrome paint, real hair, red dyed facial plane, eye and mouth area enclosed by short cut bunches of hair, separate carved wooden ornaments originally framing the face (mostly broken out), slightly dam., traces of insect caused damage, abrasion of paint, traces of old age;
in traditional Balinese dramas and processions (“topeng”, “barong”, “wayang wong” and “calonarang”) a great variety of different masks is used.

The object Beautiful old theatre mask with the object ID 3039565 was last part of the auction 81st Tribal Art Auction at October 31, 2015 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 4.

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