Miniature mask
Category
Papier-mâché
Date
Unknown
Materials
Glass, Hair, Paint, Papier-mâché
Measurements
65 mm (Length)49 mm (W)
Place of origin
Japan
Order this imageCollection
Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1335660.13
Summary
One of sixteen Japanese papier mache miniature masks, all realistic male faces in various tones of ochre colour with real hair, eyebrows, moustaches and sidelocks. Most have glass eyes. This mask has medium ochre toned skin and sandy coloured hair eyebrows and one sideburn. Other hair missing. Mouth closed in melancholy expression.
Provenance
Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.