NEW KINGDOM, 18TH DYNASTY, CIRCA 1550-1292 B.C.

Details

AN EGYPTIAN WOOD DUCK-SHAPED COSMETIC VESSEL
NEW KINGDOM, 18TH DYNASTY, CIRCA 1550-1292 B.C.
5 ½ in. (14.1 cm) long

Provenance

Ernest Brummer (1891-1964) collection, Paris and New York.
The Ernest Brummer Collection of Egyptian & Near Eastern Antiquities and Works of Art; Sotheby's, London, 16-17 November 1964, lot 105.
Resandro collection.

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Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
I. Grimm-Stadelmann (ed.), Aesthetic Glimpses, Masterpieces of Ancient Egyptian Art, The Resandro Collection, Munich, 2012, p. 50, no. R-169.

This vessel, which resembles a wild duck, would have served the purpose of a cosmetic vessel. The base is carved with an ankh symbol in low relief and the movable lid is fastened by a bone pin, its edges inlaid with a band of bone plaques. The ivory rings on the neck and the head are probably from a different cosmetic container of the same time period. For a similar vessel, cf. no. 118 in J. Vandier d'Abbadie, Les Objets de toilette égyptiens au Musée du Louvre, Paris, 1972.

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