An Attractive Mid 20thC North African Polychrome Carved Wooden Ceremonial Face Mask sub-Curios 75 inches (overall)

75 inches (overall)

with it's slim frosted top and delicate stopper has too much wear to the label to distinguish the former contents and all that can be made out for certain is -

Having warm and deep lustes the colours of these pieces are dark

Rosewood gradually became popular by the 1830s and in the 1840s it was widely used

the bottle is without chips or cracks

An Attractive Mid 20thC North African Polychrome Carved Wooden Ceremonial Face Mask sub-Curios 75 inches (overall)Origin: Moroccan Period: Mid Twentieth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1940 60 Height: 15. 5 inches Width: 6. 5 inches Depth: 5 inches (all at maximum) The ceremonial carved wood dance mask having a domed oval face with slit eyes, long aquiline nose and mouth, polychrome covered with an ebony and ivory pigment, surmounted with pecking bird headdress. The mask is in superb overall order with only small scuffs and softened wear to edgings