Lot 52
52
A GLAZED EGYPTIAN 'BLUE' WIG, the left half, of layered form with a fillet which hangs down at the back, cut-away in the crown probably for the insertion of a headdress, slight restoration, circa 1300 B.C.

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A GLAZED EGYPTIAN 'BLUE' WIG, the left half, of layered form with a fillet which hangs down at the back, cut-away in the crown probably for the insertion of a headdress, slight restoration, circa 1300 B.C.
8in. (20.2cm.) high

Lot Essay

Cf. S. Schoske, Schönheit abglanz der göttlichkeit: Kosmetik im Alten Ägypten, Munich, 1990, p. 113, no. 88 (Berlin inv. no. 22726) for a striated Egyptian "blue" wig, 1000-800 B.C.

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