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Culture
: EgyptianPeriod
: Late Ptolemaic – Early Roman Period, ca. 1st century B.C. – 1st century A.D.Material
: Cartonnage, gesso, pigments, goldDimensions
: H: 44.5 cm (17.5 in)Price
: PORProvenance
:Ex- French private collection, Paris;
Ex- American private collection, Houston, acquired from the above ca. 1979;
Sotheby’s, New York, 24 November 1987, lot 54.
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The mask represents a person wearing a long richly decorated wig painted with a checkerboard pattern of rosettes, lotus and papyrus flowers. It is surmounted by a winged scarab with gold sun-disk, and Re-Harakhti with wings spread beneath a field of stars. The broad gold collar is ornamented with Eyes of Horus, disks, lotus and papyrus festoons, rosettes, and beads. The face has long, finely-painted blue eyebrows and cosmetic lines modeled in relief.
Published
Sotheby’s, New York, 24 November 1987, lot 54.
Exhibited
Seattle Art Fair, Seattle, August 1-4 2019;
Salon Art + Design, Park Avenue Armory, New York, November 2019
Bibliography
GRIMM G., Die Römischen Mummienmasken aus Ägypten, Wiesbaden, 1974, pls. 1-4.
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