Lot Essay
For a similar blue glass lid see no. 456, p.172 in Goldstein, Pre-Roman and Early Roman Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass.
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ANOTHER PROPERTY
A PAIR OF EGYPTIAN GLASS EYE AND BROW INLAYS
NEW KINGDOM, DYNASTY XVIII-XX, 1550-1070 B.C.
Details
A PAIR OF EGYPTIAN GLASS EYE AND BROW INLAYS
NEW KINGDOM, DYNASTY XVIII-XX, 1550-1070 B.C.
Composed of white sclerae with obsidian irises, set into contoured blue glass lids with extending cosmetic lines, paired with corresponding arching brows tapering to pointed ends
Longer brow: 4½ in. (11.4 cm.) long
NEW KINGDOM, DYNASTY XVIII-XX, 1550-1070 B.C.
Composed of white sclerae with obsidian irises, set into contoured blue glass lids with extending cosmetic lines, paired with corresponding arching brows tapering to pointed ends
Longer brow: 4½ in. (11.4 cm.) long
Provenance
Geneva Private Collection, 1970.
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