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A wood Gigaku mask with crown
- NARA PERIOD (8TH CENTURY)

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A wood Gigaku mask with crown
NARA PERIOD (8TH CENTURY)
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    $8,000 - $10,000

Sale Information

Sale 2296
Japanese & Korean Art
24 March 2010
New York, Rockefeller Plaza Buy Catalog





Lot Description

A wood Gigaku mask with crown
Nara period (8th century)
With downturned bulbous nose and tongue sticking out, wearing a short crown, decorated in black, red and white pigment over dry lacquer (kanshitsu)
13¾in. (35cm.) long
Wood storage box inscribed Gigaku men, Yano Takehide sensei aigan, Nogami Toyoichiro kan (Gigaku mask, treasured by Yano Takehide sensei, authenticated by [the Noh mask scholar] Nogami Toyoichiro) and Showa juyonen hachigatsu San Sebasutian ni oite (August 1939, San Sebastian) on the reverse

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Yano Takehide

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