About the Artwork
Handle in Form of a Tao-Tieh Mask
between 264 and 589
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Chinese
Chinese
Gilt bronze
Overall: 4 × 5 inches (10.2 × 12.7 cm)
Metalwork
Asian Art
Gift of Ton-Ying and Company
26.130
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
(Ton-Ying & Company [est. 1902], New York, USA and Paris, France)
1926-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Chinese, Handle in Form of a Tao-Tieh Mask, between 264 and 589, gilt bronze. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Ton-Ying and Company, 26.130.
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