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Mask
Published 2019-01-11T12:17:40+00:00
Description
This is a gilt-bronze ‘mask’, examples of the influence of Louis XIV’s court on European art and design.
Referring to it just as a mask is perhaps slightly misleading as, measuring 51 x 57 cm, it is much too large and heavy for a person to actually wear. It is instead a sculptural piece that was probably intended to function as decoration for a fountain. There is no lower jaw, which suggests that it may have been designed to have a water spout coming out from its ‘mouth’. The hole you can see below the mask’s right ear may have been used to fix it to the fountain.
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Technical Information
Date published | 11/01/2019 |
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Title | Mask |
Date | circa 1700 |
Dimension | 51cm x 57cm |
Accession | no. A.1-1937 |
Medium | Gilded bronze |
Credit | Commissioned by the Direction Generale des Batiments du Roi |
Record | https://www.vam.ac.uk/blog/creating-new-europe-1600-1800-galleries/grotesque-faces |
Artist | Unknown artist |
Place | Victoria and Albert Museum, London |
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