AN EGYPTIAN GREEN FAIENCE LION-HEADED GODDESS

LATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXV-XXX, 712-343 B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN GREEN FAIENCE LION-HEADED GODDESS
LATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXV-XXX, 712-343 B.C.
Probably depicting Sekhmet, seated on a throne, wearing a tightly-fitted sheath and a striated tripartite wig, her hands resting on her knees, a circular mortise at the top of the head for insertion of a separately-made and now-missing crown, the sides of the throne and plinth with black-painted details
7 3/16 in. (18.3 cm.) high

来源

with A la Reine Margot, Paris, 1981.

出版

G.D. Scott, III, Exhibition catalogue, Temple, Tomb and Dwelling: Egyptian Antiquities from the Harer Family Trust Collection, San Bernardino, 1992, no. 14, pp. 28-29.

展览

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, periodically 1986-1991.
West Palm Beach, South Florida Science Museum and elsewhere, Imhotep's Egypt, The Dawn of Technology, 8 January-30 March 1989.
San Bernardino, University Art Gallery, California State University and elsewhere, Temple, Tomb and Dwelling: Egyptian Antiquities from the Harer Family Trust Collection, 8 January-30 December 1992.

拍品专文

Large-scale sculpture in faience was far more difficult to craft as compared to the more common amulets and beads. Problems can occur at a number of points during the firing process: If the required high temperature is reached too soon, the object can distort or crack; if the kiln temperature is not uniform, warping can occur; and if the kiln temperature is left too high for too long a time, slumping can occur. This last problem is what seems to have affected the present example, as evinced by the curvature of the upper body and plinth, and the runny, fused black ornament on the throne. For another misfired faience object, see the Late Period sistrum, no. 189 in Friedman, ed., Gifts of the Nile: Ancient Egyptian Faience.