Masque "Garuda" · Bhutan · ID: 3048777
Vendu
1 500 €
Provenance
Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 19 June 2010, Lot 144Werner Zintl, Worms, Germany
Description
wood, three-piece, polychrome colours
The ancient “Bon” animist bird spirit “Khyung”. Subsumed by later Buddhist imagery its shamanic connections are retained by its use of mountain goat horns.
Littérature comparée
Chazot, Eric, Masks of the Himalayas, New York 1990, p. 12