拍品 45
45
AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE STELE FRAGMENT
THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN 
AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE STELE FRAGMENT

NEW KINGDOM, REIGN OF AMENHOTEP III, CIRCA 1390-1352 B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE STELE FRAGMENT
NEW KINGDOM, REIGN OF AMENHOTEP III, CIRCA 1390-1352 B.C.
Sculpted in sunken relief, depicting a couple, the woman on a high-backed chair, wearing a heavy wig tied with a headband, her left arm over the left shoulder of her husband, with a perfume cone on his head, holding a mandrake in his left hand, remains of red pigment
5¾ x 4¾ in. (14.5 x 12 cm.)
來源
Private collection, UK, acquired in Egypt in 1940s; thence by descent.

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The mandrake, also called 'love apple', is frequently found in banquet scenes dating to the end of Dynasty XVIII. Other examples include a vignette on the gold shrine from the treasure of Tutankhamun and wall paintings from the tomb of Nakht (TT52) in the Theban cemetary.

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