AN EGYPTIAN RED GLASS ROYAL HEAD INLAY
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AN EGYPTIAN RED GLASS ROYAL HEAD INLAY

NEW KINGDOM, RAMESSIDE PERIOD, 19TH-20TH DYNASTY, 1295-1069 B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN RED GLASS ROYAL HEAD INLAY
NEW KINGDOM, RAMESSIDE PERIOD, 19TH-20TH DYNASTY, 1295-1069 B.C.
1 3/8 in. (3.5 cm.) high
Provenance
Antiquities, Sotheby's, London, 15 July 1980, lot 346.
Literature
"Le Verre Antique: Dans l'intimite des collectionneurs," in Artpassions, no. 9, Geneva, 2007, p. 62.

Lot Essay

According to J.D. Cooney in Catalogue of Egyptian Antiquities in the British Museum: Glass, vol. II: "The most typical product of Egyptian sculpture in glass was the human head, or face, made to be fitted into a composite or acrolithic statuette" (p. 11). This particular inlay, given the banded eye and shape of the profile, fits with a Ramesside date, perhaps to the reign of Rameses II (1279-1213 B.C.).

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