AN EGYPTIAN CARNELIAN INLAY

LATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXX TO PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, 380-30 B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN CARNELIAN INLAY
Late Period, Dynasty XXX to Ptolemaic Period, 380-30 B.C.
With the face, neck and ear intended to serve as an inlay likely for a royal or divine wooden shrine, the modelling of the flesh rendered by a series of subtle, merging planes to which the details have been added as linear adjuncts
1 5/8 in. (4.1 cm)

Provenance

Ralph Esmerian

Lot Essay

For a similar example see no. 391 in Berman, The Cleveland Museum of Art. Catalogue of Egyptian Art, and for the function and dating, see pp. 29-35 in Bianchi, "Those Ubiquitous Glass Inlays from Pharaonic Egypt," Journal of Glass Studies 25, and pp. 9-29 in "Those Ubiquitous Glass Inlays, Part II," Bulletin of the Egyptological Seminar 5.

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