Gilt Bronze Death Mask

early 10th - early 12th Century

Bronze with gilt

8 3/8 x 6 7/8 in. (21.3 x 17.5 cm)

Thomas D. Stimson Memorial Collection

43.10

Provenance: Yamanaka & Co., Inc, United States, to 1942; [liquidation sale by Alien Property Custodian, Yamanaka & Co., Inc., 1943, lot 79]; purchased from Yamanaka Liquidation Sale by Seattle Art Museum, 1943

Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistoryRoyal Ontario Museum, "Masks: The Many Faces of Man," (1959)

University of St. Thomas, Houston, Texas, "Persona Grata, Masks," (1960)

New Orleans, Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, "Masks and Masquerades," (1961)

Published ReferencesNew Orleans, Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, "Masks and Masquerades," (1961), cat., no. 133

University of St. Thomas, Houston, Texas, "Persona Grata," (1960), cat., no. 32, ill.

Royal Ontario Museum, "Masks," (1959), cat., no. E19

Minkenhof, S. H. "Date and Provenance of Death Masks of the Far East," in Artibus Asiae, vol. 14, no. 1/2 (1951), pp. 62-71, illus. p. 65, fig. 3

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