Lot Essay
Cf. P. Perdrizet, Les Terres cuites grecques d'Égypte de la collection Fouquet, Nancy, 1921, p. 87, pl. LXI, for a maenad mask.
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1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.
Details
A ROMANO-EGYPTIAN PAINTED TERRACOTTA MASK
1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.
The white painted male face with curly black beard, moustache and hair, black rimmed pierced eyes with extended eyeline, wearing a yellow painted fillet with central uraeus and sun disc, three holes for attachment at each ear and at centre hairline
8¼ in. (21 cm.) high
1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.
The white painted male face with curly black beard, moustache and hair, black rimmed pierced eyes with extended eyeline, wearing a yellow painted fillet with central uraeus and sun disc, three holes for attachment at each ear and at centre hairline
8¼ in. (21 cm.) high
Provenance
Property from a Princely collection, acquired in the 1960s (see lot 115 onwards).
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