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LATE DYNASTY XVIII/EARLY DYNASTY XIX, CIRCA 1300 B.C.
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AN EGYPTIAN WOODEN HEAD OF AN IMPORTANT EGYPTIAN NOBLEWOMAN
LATE DYNASTY XVIII/EARLY DYNASTY XIX, CIRCA 1300 B.C.
Wearing a tripartite wig, with central parting and finely striated braids, with a serene expression and sensitively modelled eyebrows, eye-line and pupils, on velvet mount
5½ in. (14 cm.) high
LATE DYNASTY XVIII/EARLY DYNASTY XIX, CIRCA 1300 B.C.
Wearing a tripartite wig, with central parting and finely striated braids, with a serene expression and sensitively modelled eyebrows, eye-line and pupils, on velvet mount
5½ in. (14 cm.) high
Provenance
This head was bought by the actress, Vivien Leigh, in 1945 when she took the part of Cleopatra in Bernard Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra; it remained one of her most treasured possessions until her death in 1967. Cf. La Gloire d'Alexandrie, Musée du Petit Palais, Paris, 1998, p. 302 and pls. on pp. 294 and 300-301 for Vivien Leigh in Caesar and Cleopatra.
Special notice
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