AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE MATRIX

DYNASTY XXX TO PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, 380-30 B.C.

細節

AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE MATRIX
DYNASTY XXX TO PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, 380-30 B.C.
Rectangular in form, with the head of a pharaoh sculpted in raised relief in profile to the right, with a fleshy face, the almond-shaped eye with pronounced upper lid, the nose upturned, with fleshy lips and a receding rounded chin
3 1/8 in. (8 cm.) long

來源

with R. Gill, London, 1991 (Eternal Egypt Catalogue "Dendera," no. 14).

出版

G.D. Scott, III, Exhibition catalogue, Temple, Tomb and Dwelling: Egyptian Antiquities from the Harer Family Trust Collection, San Bernardino, 1992, no. 18, pp. 32-33.

展覽

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, periodically 1986-1991.
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.
San Antonio Museum of Art, October 1992-July 1993.
San Antonio Museum of Art, Mummies: The Egyptian Art of Death, 20 July 1993-1 October 1995 (loan extended through July 1996).

拍品專文

The present object served as the matrix for a mold used to cast inlays in faience or glass. The contours of the top of the head and round edge at the base of the neck were crafted so that the finished product could be merged with conforming inlays of contrasting colors. The matrix would have been pressed into clay, which would then be fired, and eventually the desired material would be pressed or poured into the mold. Such a system of manufacture allowed for near mass production.

The use of stone, faience or glass inlays of similar scale began in the New Kingdom and they continued in popularity through the Ptolemaic Period. The features of the face of the present example suggest a date of the Thirtieth Dynasty to the early Ptolemaic Period.