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Face mask: carnival mask

Restitution status: Dubiousness is still to be clarified

Categories: Arts and crafts

Object Data

 

Artist

Unknown

Museum

The Austrian Museum of Folk Life and Folk Art

Inventory Number

ÖMV/45870

Description

Carnival mask, carved from softwood, coloured. Grotesque facial features, glued-on nose. Moselle region, Rhineland-Palatinate.

Height

25.2 cm

Width

15.3 cm

Period

2nd half of the 19th Century, 20th Century

Provenance Data

 

Former owner according to museum / collection

Unknown

Provenance

Acquisition from the art market/antique shop

Provenance according to museum / collection

Acquisition from the antiquarian bookshop of August III von Miller zu Aichholz "Tracht und Heimatkunst", Neuer Markt 8, 1010 Vienna

Committee in charge

Board of the Society for Folk Life and Folk Art

Decision

No decision has been reached so far.

Implementation

The art or cultural object is kept in the museum/in the collection.

Annotations

Inside on the side with pencil: M

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© Art restitution National Fund of the Republic Austria for Victims of National Socialism