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19th Century Iron Bull's Head
Located in Houston, TX
Original iron bull's head from France.
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Iron Masks
Materials
Iron
Vintage Heavy Iron Tribal Art Sculpture Flat Portrait Hanging Face Mask
Located in Dayton, OH
Vintage heavy iron modern art sculpture funerary mask featuring a flattened face with no expression. Stamped TM. Measure: 13".
Category
Late 20th Century Folk Art Iron Masks
Materials
Iron
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TA RA TA TA, Seminara Ceramic Mask
Located in Paris, FR
The apotropaic (warding off evil) mask from Seminara can be distinguished by its horns, wide eyes, mustache, and screaming mouth with its tongue sticking out. The masks are finished in enormous wood fired kilns, which adds an uncontrollable twist to the features and colors rendered by the artisan’s hands—the final touch in their fierce and imperfect beauty. The demonic aspect of this mask is manifested in order to be expelled, bringing serenity to the owner and ridding the home of negative energy. Giovanni De Francesco takes an idiosyncratic approach to the traditional mask, aiming not for verisimilitude but for a rough impression of the volumes of the face. Using sculptural gestures to shape the clay, he accentuates the fundamental geometry and makes the shapes more grotesque.
Incense can also be placed within TA RA TA TA’s ceramic jaws for ritual burning. This function alludes to a specific variation of the typical mask in in the form of a chimneypot: with smoke pouring out of its mouth and eyes, the mask would appear much more ferocious—and thus even more powerful.
Details:
- Dimension: approximately 32 H x 25 W x 10 D cm
- Material: 100% Mediterranean terracotta clay
- Technique: 100% handmade in Italy
- Each handcrafted TA RA TA TA Seminara mask is unique. Picture on an indicative basis.
- 14-days return policy
- In stock
Giovanni De Francesco (Bergamo 1976), lives and works between Milan and Paris. He is a visual artist dedicated to sculptural installations through the use of plastic materials, photography, video, painting and sound. Since 1997 he has taken part in many personal exhibits as well as collective ones. He an artistic consultant at the Luisa delle Piane gallery in Milan and is a founding member of the Monstera theatre company. He occasionally collaborates with Andre Branzi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Iron Masks
Materials
Ceramic
MISTO, Seminara Ceramic Mask
Located in Paris, FR
MISTO invites itself into your interior to ward off spells, evil spirits and evil influences.
Sophie Dries reinvents the traditional Calabrian mask with her contemporary graphic
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Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Iron Masks
Materials
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Cariddi, Seminara Ceramic Mask
Located in Paris, FR
In Greek mythology, the name CARIDDI (Charybdis in English) belonged to a monster that lived in the sea between Calabria and Sicily and destroyed ships by swallowing them up and spitting them back out, generating dangerous whirlpools in the water. This myth is reinterpreted in the form of a mask, which inverts the traditional convex surface to create a concave volume inspired by the underwater world. The mask invites the gaze into the blue depths of its smooth interior, where an uncanny protrusion emerges in the shape of a nose, a signature motif in Giovanni De Francesco’s artistic production. Each nose-island is different from the others; every mask has a unique beauty accentuated by imperfections, smudges, and uncontrollable colors, invoking the unpredictability of fear. This perception overturns the ferocious symbolism of the legendary monster, rewriting CARIDDI as a welcoming narrative. The artist’s explorations of fear, danger, and the unknown become particularly poignant when placed in the recent historical context of Calabria and the Mediterranean Sea.
In the exceptional conditions of the present moment, when hundreds of millions of people are spending more time at home than ever before in living memory, the homeware brand TRAME wants to share the inspiring and supportive influences of these Mediterranean ritual objects with the entire world.
The masks, whether the traditional forms or the contemporary design interpretations, reveal a sense of both timelessness and contemporaneity in their aspirational evocation of a social life with more serenity and less fear.
Details:
- Dimension: approximately 28 H x 22 W x 8 D cm
- Material: 100% Mediterranean terracotta clay
- Technique: 100% handmade in Italy
- Each handcrafted CARIDDI Seminara mask is unique. Picture on an indicative basis.
- 14-days return policy
- In stock
Giovanni De Francesco (Bergamo 1976), lives and works between Milan and Paris. He is a visual artist dedicated to sculptural installations through the use of plastic materials, photography, video, painting and sound. Since 1997 he has taken part in many personal exhibits as well as collective ones. He an artistic consultant at the Luisa delle Piane gallery in Milan and is a founding member of the Monstera theatre company.
He occasionally collaborates with Andre Branzi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Iron Masks
Materials
Ceramic
Mid-20th Century Black Dance Mask, Guerrero, Mexico
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Mid-20th century black dance mask, Guerrero, Mexico
A nice old mask from Guererro, Mexico, used in the Tlacololero Dance of the Tlactapa and probably fr...
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Materials
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French, 19th Century Iron Shoemakers Shop Sign
Located in Buisson, FR
Original riveted sheet iron shoemakers shop sign. Unique find,
France, circa 1800-1850. Traces of red paint visible.
Weathered.
Category
19th Century French Folk Art Antique Iron Masks
Materials
Iron
19th Century Majolica Fish Heads Oyster Plate Onnaing
By Onnaing
Located in Austin, TX
Rare 19th century Majolica fish heads oyster plate from North of France (Onnaing unsigned).
Reference: Page 130 "Collecting oysters plates" of ...
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1880s French Victorian Antique Iron Masks
Materials
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100 FEARS, Seminara Ceramic Mask
Located in Paris, FR
The traditional masks of the Calabrian town of Seminara are intended to chase away evil from the home, dispel fears and gossip with their exaggerated and grotesque features. The mask...
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African Dogon Manner Tribal Face Mask
Located in New York, NY
African Dogon manner tribal face mask, in the style of the Dogon peoples of Mali.
Dimensions: 12" H x 6" W (approx)
Dealer: S138XX.
Category
Mid-20th Century Tribal Iron Masks
Materials
Wood
Traditional, Seminara Ceramic Mask
Located in Paris, FR
Ditto potters with Antonio Bonamico.
The ceramic masks of Seminara are ostentatious and grotesque, with deliberately frightening features to scare away ...
Category
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Materials
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Songye Basangwe Mask DRC Wall Hanging Mask Circa 1950s
Located in Torquay, GB
On offer is a Basangwe mask from the Songye people of the Democratic Republic of Congo, circa 1950s.
The mask has the typical facial shape of the Basangwe mask.
At the top, it has a pair of stylised birds decorated with punched triangles. Their long beaks seem to suggest Hornbill or Kalao bird.
The eyes are slanted elongated slits, it has narrow nose and protruding circular mouth in a light russet colour.
It has a banded stripe design in black and white more similar to a Songye Kifwebe mask...
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Collection of Handmade Mexican Folk Art Masks
Located in Atlanta, GA
Collection of Handmade Mexican Folk Art Tin Masks, Mexican, circa 1950s. Each mask is unique and extremely detailed. The largest mask measures 21"...
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1950s Mexican Folk Art Vintage Iron Masks
Materials
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MISTO, Seminara Ceramic Mask, Green, Sophie Dries
Located in Paris, FR
MISTO invites itself into your interior to ward off spells, evil spirits and evil influences.
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circa 1960s Wilton Cast Iron Four Eyed Bottle Opener "the Ugly Gypsy"
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A fun and original Wilton cast iron bottle openers, the four eyes giving an optical elusion to the user.
The original paint has a wonderful ...
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Mid-20th Century American Iron Masks
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Samurai Yoroi Kabuto Helmet
Located in Paris, FR
Samurai Yoroi Kabuto Helmet with wrought Iron
and with details in solid brass. With fabrics and prints
on fabric pieces, mustache with real bear hair ...
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1930s Japanese Vintage Iron Masks
Materials
Brass, Iron
Japanese Warrior's Mask 'Menoshitaboo' 1870-1900s Iron
Located in Paris, FR
This is a warrior's mask made around 1870-1900s in Japan.
It is called 'Me no shita boo'. (Me: eye, No: of, Shita: under, Boo/Hoo: cheek)
It is made with iron and it is possible to take off the nose part.
'Menoshitaboo' is characterised by its ability to remove the nose and its expressiveness.
A beard around the mouth expresses the warrior's dignity.
'Menoshitaboo' have open mouths to facilitate breathing and speech on the battlefield. In contrast to the full face mask...
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Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Iron Masks
Materials
Iron
Old Bamana Animal Mask, Mali
Located in Rochester, NY
Bamana animal mask, Mali - representing a lion with short wide ears and open toothy mouth. A simple form with great presence in beautifully aged original old surface color with genui...
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Early 20th Century Malian Tribal Iron Masks
Materials
Iron
Early Bamana Mask, Mali
Located in Rochester, NY
Bamana mask from Mali with deep set eyes, small highly placed ears, head crest extending down joining long prominent nose and the face with zig-zag pattern...
Category
Early 20th Century Malian Tribal Iron Masks
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Early 20th Century English Bulls Death Mask
Located in London, GB
Early 20th Century bulls death mask
This is a very unusual and morbid object, used in the early 20th century by English famers this object would have been used to put down bulls or ...
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Cast-iron Carousel Ornament of a Woman in a Turban
By Herschell Spillman
Located in Nantucket, MA
Painted cast-iron mask of a woman wearing a red turban with a star and crescent moon. Typical of amusement park and carnival art of the period it is painted...
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Materials
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Rare Museum Quality African "Bird" Mask
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Extremely intricate museum quality African mask. In the manner of a bird with a large beak. Made of wood and hand-painted with great coloring. Mounted on a metal stand. Excellent vin...
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Materials
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West African Kanaga Mask from Mali
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A stunning Kanaga mask from the Dogon tribe of Mali, West Africa. Gallery display stand is included.
One of the most popular types of masks in the Sanga...
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Nigerian Double Fertility Mask Indicating Twins
Located in Troy, MI
Circa 1900 Nigerian fertility mask has two faces to indicate twins and has a custom made iron stand.
Category
Early 20th Century Nigerian Iron Masks
Materials
Iron
Early Primitive Metal and Leather Mask
Located in Peekskill, NY
This is a very primitive hand made metal mask. Judging from the patina I'd guess this is late 1800s to 1920s. I don't know if its use was ethnic, carnival or religious... But it does...
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Materials
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Rare 19th Century French Jockey Mask
Located in Calgary, Alberta
We believe that this beautiful 19th century French cast iron jockey mask was once part of a bigger piece. It has many decades of paint still evident and rust marks that do not take a...
Category
19th Century French Antique Iron Masks
Materials
Iron