A TURQUOISE GLAZED COMPOSITION HEAD OF BES

CIRCA 1ST CENTURY B.C./A.D.

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A TURQUOISE GLAZED COMPOSITION HEAD OF BES
CIRCA 1ST CENTURY B.C./A.D.
Broken away below, 2.5/8 in. (6.6 cm.) high; a fragmentary Romano-Egyptian gesso-painted plaster funerary head of a female, the black painted face with inlaid white eyes with 'black' glass pupils, repaired, mounted, circa 1st Century B.C./A.D., 8¼ in. (21 cm.) high; and a Kashan turquoise glazed 'faience' tile fragment with a relief of an animal, 13th-14th Century A.D., 4.7/8 in. (12.4 cm.) long (3)

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