An Attractive Mid 20thC North African Polychrome Carved Wooden Ceremonial Face Mask sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles Flaxman's original drawings for this

Flaxman's original drawings for this work are preserved at the Royal Academy of Arts

it spread to other parts of Asia

Most of the specimens are not native to Britain

Elsewhere across the world in the year of 1790

and futurism

An Attractive Mid 20thC North African Polychrome Carved Wooden Ceremonial Face Mask sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles Flaxman's original drawings for thisOrigin: 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