1943.1060: Mask

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1943.1060

People

Unidentified Artist

Title

Mask

Classification

Sculpture

Work Type

sculpture

Date

c. 300-c. 900

Culture

Mexican

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/230076

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Gray-white basalt

Technique

Carved

Dimensions

21.7 × 14.3 × 14 cm (8 9/16 × 5 5/8 × 5 1/2 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• label: inside mask, graphite, handwritten: For Maya Room / from / 2nd floor [closet?]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

[Brummer Gallery, New York, NY, January 1938, cat. N3737, sold;] to Grenville L. Winthrop, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop

Accession Year

1943

Object Number

1943.1060

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

Long narrow stylized scaphoid forehead; pupils of eyes drilled out; mouth open; tongue shows; nose delineated by incised lines of cheeks. Head-dress indicated; rear deeply hollowed, with six holes for tie strings.

Publication History

• Chinese Sculpture, Bronzes, Jades, Paintings and Drawings, Egyptian and Persian sculpture, Pre-Columbian art; selected from the collection of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1943), p. 7

Exhibition History

• Chinese sculpture, bronzes, jades, paintings and drawings, Egyptian and Persian sculpture, Pre-Columbian art : selected from the collection of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 10/01/1943 - 02/28/1944

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