HORUS FALCON, very detailed, opaque white body with blue facial and feather markings, opaque red eye with blue pupil, opaque yellow detailed blue beak, hood and wings, with opaque turquoise, red, white and detailed blue wings and opaque white, 'blue' and red 'striped' tail feathers, yellow feet, yellow and white claws, on red and blue floral ground line
Details
HORUS FALCON, very detailed, opaque white body with blue facial and feather markings, opaque red eye with blue pupil, opaque yellow detailed blue beak, hood and wings, with opaque turquoise, red, white and detailed blue wings and opaque white, 'blue' and red 'striped' tail feathers, yellow feet, yellow and white claws, on red and blue floral ground line
3rd-1st Century B.C.
2.5cm. square, 0.5cm. thick
Lot Essay
Cf. British Museum (EA 64272); Five Thousand Years of Glass, pl. 60, donated in 1890