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A GILT COPPER ALLOY FUNERARY MASK Funerary masks such as this lot began to appear in the West in
Liao dynasty the early 20th century. It was Japanese archaeologists during the
Hammered from a thin copper, tin and silver alloy sheet and occupation of Manchuria who identified the group as belonging to the
realistically modeled with thin, sunken eyes, wide brows setting off a Khitan tribes that formed the Liao dynasty (907-1125). For a review of
long triangular nose and small mouth accenting the broad cheeks and the archaeological history of these masks, Liao burial customs, and
long crescent ears, the surface covered with earthen encrustation. a silver-coated bronze mask at the University Museum, Philadelphia,
7 1/4in (18.4cm) high; 8 1/8in (20.7cm) wide see Jan Fontein & Tung Wu, Unearthing China’s Past, Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston, 1973, cat. no. 101, pp. 192-194. See also Asia Society
$5,000 - 7,000 exhibition, Gilded Splendor: Treasures of China’s Liao Empire (907-
1125),, New York, 2006, pp. 100 - 101.
遼 鎏金銅面具

Provenance:
Sloan’s, September 1998, lot 620

On loan and exhibited:
The Denver Art Museum, 1998 - 2016, (Loan 1999.2)

來源：
Sloan’s， 1998年9月，拍品編號620

展覽：
丹佛美術館，1998-2016年

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