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There are 21 objects for which Decoration contains → mask
12.10.1 Mask of woman in high relief with wig-like mass of hair with lightly incised zigzags. Projecting ornament. Perhaps decoration from a portable brazier or perhaps a fireplace decoration.
2007.10.2.178 Female bust. Profile facing right. Looking towards a male bearded face (reminiscent of a dramatic mask).
2007.10.2.76 Male figure carrying a staff, possibly wearing a theatrical mask.
2007.9.1.22 Displaying a theatre mask with thick hair.
2007.9.3.110 Male bust in profile facing right. He has a comic mask to his right, implying association with the theatre.
2008.2.1.53 Short haired woman holding and gazing at the head of a bearded male, possibly a drama mask.
2009.10.2.210 Depiction of a man, with a smaller figure behind his shoulder, a face or a mask in the foreground, on the bottom right. Number 82.
2009.8.123 Portrait of a man with curly hair, open mouth and distorted features, maybe a theater mask. Cast number: 67
2009.8.63 A man with a beard and wavy hair kneeling in front of an altar, holding a snake. Behind him, stading a young woman. On the other side of the altar, a tree with a ram head. On a pole is a mask. Inscription on the bottom. Cast number: 116
2009.9.117 Two naked winged children. The one on the left is holding a lyre, the other a mask. Cast number: 50
2009.9.151 A naked winged child playing with a human head with wild hair and an open mouth, probably a theater mask. Cast number: 85
2009.9.152 A naked woman with a strange face, maybe wearing a theater mask, sitting on a barque. Cast number: 96
2009.9.232 A man with a beard leaning on a cane, to his feet lies a theater mask and a flower is growing. Cast number: 72
29.11.11 Female mask or protome; suspension hole in top. Clay brown, covered with white slip.
34.10.17 Orange/buff clay. White slip, traces of red and black. Suspension hole blocked. Female protone / mask with long hair; almost straight across bottom. Label '115' inside.
47.6.3 Dull brownish-black glaze all over. Ribbed handles with bearded masks instead of spurs, handles divided in two between mask and body. In handle zone, incised band of tendrils on straight stalk. White dots (v. worn) above and below. Round top of lower band some evidence of what was a wavy pattern. Lower band black as is base and the rest of the vessel.
L.2011.1.53 Red glaze. Two figures in low-relief: on the right a human figure with legs outturned, on the left a human face (mask) with a sort of base or plate on the head; above the plate two legs of an incomplete human figure. On the sides of this composition two vertical patterns, composed by short horizontal signs with below a six-ends star.
REDMG:1951.132.1 Metallic black gloss on entire surface (dipped) except for reserved (and ruddled) upper part of foot and underside, including resting surface. In addition to moulded mask, and ribbed shoulder decoration (see above), incised (although glazed) cross under spout.
REDMG:1951.143.1 Shoulder decorated with yellow ivy wreath from which dangles an actor's mask at centre: white face to left with yellowish-brown hair, head and features. On either side, a pair of purple-red fillets with white dots and white strings at the bottom, inside long yellow dotted branches. White line around shoulder, above vertical ribbing. Otherwise black glazed except for reserved areas in uneven band around join of at bottom of ribbing, foot and underside.
REDMG:1953.25.16 Black glazed, except for interior (beyond mouth), lower part of body, and underside. Superimposed (faded) decoration: dotted spray around lower part of neck; mask falling between two dotted sprays; red band on reserved area at lower part of body.
REDMG:1953.25.95 Female mask, with suspension hole. Wearing a head dress. Slightly archaic features.
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