拍品 371
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AN EGYPTIAN CREAM AND BLUISH-GREY FAIENCE BIRD INLAY
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AN EGYPTIAN CREAM AND BLUISH-GREY FAIENCE BIRD INLAY

CIRCA 4TH CENTURY B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN CREAM AND BLUISH-GREY FAIENCE BIRD INLAY
CIRCA 4TH CENTURY B.C.
In the form of a quail chick (the hieroglyph 'w'), with finely detailed bluish-grey glazed legs, feather and wing details, light green glazed beak, tip of beak and legs missing; and an Egyptian pale greenish-white faience lion's head appliqué with facial detail in yellow glaze, concave at the back, Graeco-Roman period, circa 1st Century B.C./A.D.
2 in. (5.2 cm.) high and 2 1/8 in. (5.3 cm.) diam. respectively (2)
來源
Acquired in 1958 from Jacques Matoussian (item one); and acquired in 1988, Hôtel Drouot, Paris (item two).
展覽
Item one: Le Don du Nil: Art Égyptien dans les collections Suisses, Archäologische Sammlung der Universität Zürich et al., 1978.
注意事項
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拍品專文

PUBLISHED:
Item one: Exhibition catalogue, Le Don du Nil, Art Égyptien dans les collections Suisses, Bâle, 1978, p. 88, no. 311.

Item one: cf. F. D. Friedman (ed.), Gifts of the Nile: Ancient Egyptian Faience, London, 1998, pp. 76, 200 and 230, nos. 61 and 128, for similar bird inlays.