LOT 0343 Chinese Liao Gold Death Mask
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Liao Dynasty, 907-1125 AD. A solid sheet gold death mask with textured eyebrows, holes over the eyes, modelled facial features. See discussion in Shimada, M., A Death-Mask of the Liao Period, in Artibus Asiae Vol. 13, No. 4, 1950. 151 grams, 18.5cm (7 1/4"). Property of a Lincolnshire gentleman; acquired Campbell's Auction sale, 2016, lot 506, with copy of sale pages; reputedly from the estate of a deceased jeweller; accompanied by an invoice from The Goldsmiths' Company dated 22 January 2020 for testing and hallmarking at 22 carat gold; this lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by AIAD certificate number no.10178-163827. Sheet-metal death masks were a particular custom of the Chieta-tan tribe among the northern peoples of China in the Liao Period (11th-121th century AD), reported and commented upon by one by Wen-wei-chien in a document called Lu-ting-tsa-chi. The masks were made by hammering sheet metal over a wooden former, and were attached to the funerary display using bronze wire. [a video of this item will be available on Timeline Auctions website.]
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