拍品專文
For a related bronze mirror with the handle in the form of a nude girl see no. 218 in E. Brovarski, et al., Egypt's Golden Age: The Art of Living in the New Kingdom, 1558-1085 B.C.
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THE PROPERTY OF A SWISS PRIVATE COLLECTOR
AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE MIRROR
NEW KINGDOM, EARLY TO MID 18TH DYNASTY, CIRCA 1550-1425 B.C.
細節
AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE MIRROR
NEW KINGDOM, EARLY TO MID 18TH DYNASTY, CIRCA 1550-1425 B.C.
The handle in the form of a nude female, standing on a thin, integral, rectangular plinth with her left leg advanced, her right arm lowered, holding an attribute, perhaps a bolt of cloth, her left arm bent at the elbow, holding a globular offering in the palm of her hand below her breasts, adorned with a thin waistband with incised zigzag, a broad collar, disk earrings and an enormous enveloping wig with hatched tresses, their ends twisted, a lotus flower above her forehead, her moon face with modeled brows, narrow eyes, a small broad nose and a smiling mouth, with a separately-cast cordiform disk held in place by a now-missing pin through the large lotiform element surmounting her head
9.15/16 in. (25.2 cm.) long
NEW KINGDOM, EARLY TO MID 18TH DYNASTY, CIRCA 1550-1425 B.C.
The handle in the form of a nude female, standing on a thin, integral, rectangular plinth with her left leg advanced, her right arm lowered, holding an attribute, perhaps a bolt of cloth, her left arm bent at the elbow, holding a globular offering in the palm of her hand below her breasts, adorned with a thin waistband with incised zigzag, a broad collar, disk earrings and an enormous enveloping wig with hatched tresses, their ends twisted, a lotus flower above her forehead, her moon face with modeled brows, narrow eyes, a small broad nose and a smiling mouth, with a separately-cast cordiform disk held in place by a now-missing pin through the large lotiform element surmounting her head
9.15/16 in. (25.2 cm.) long
來源
Charles Gillet (1879-1972), Lausanne; thence by descent to his son, Renaud Gillet (1913-2001), Paris.