A gilt-bronze severed head

Description:

Tibet, 18th cent.
H. 12 cm
The head, originally part of a garland of severed heads, cast with a serene facial expression showing slit eyes below bushy eyebrows, mustache and goatee framing his red coloured lips, beard and his hair combed in a chignon fastened to a looped ring for attachment to the garland.
European private collection