Lot Essay
For a coffin with a similar face and wig see no. 121, p. 169 in S. D'Auria, P. Lacovara, and C.H. Roehrig, Mummies & Magic, The Funerary Arts of Ancient Egypt.
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ANOTHER PROPERTY
AN EGYPTIAN PAINTED WOOD MUMMY MASK
THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, 22ND DYNASTY, 945-712 B.C.
Details
AN EGYPTIAN PAINTED WOOD MUMMY MASK
THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, 22ND DYNASTY, 945-712 B.C.
From the lid of an anthropoid coffin, painted in bright pigment over gesso, yellow for the skin tones, black for the eye outlines, irises, brows and cosmetic lines, a black dot in between the brows, white for the sclerae, the preserved portions of the broad wig with alternating blue and yellow stripes, a fillet of red, yellow, white and blue running horizontally above a section of blue embellished with yellow dots, dowels on either side of and in the center of the preserved portions of the wig
11½ in. (29.2 cm.) high
THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, 22ND DYNASTY, 945-712 B.C.
From the lid of an anthropoid coffin, painted in bright pigment over gesso, yellow for the skin tones, black for the eye outlines, irises, brows and cosmetic lines, a black dot in between the brows, white for the sclerae, the preserved portions of the broad wig with alternating blue and yellow stripes, a fillet of red, yellow, white and blue running horizontally above a section of blue embellished with yellow dots, dowels on either side of and in the center of the preserved portions of the wig
11½ in. (29.2 cm.) high
Provenance
R. Liechti Collection, Geneva, 1976.
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