AN EGYPTIAN FAIENCE FINGER RING
PROPERTY FROM THE HARER FAMILY TRUST COLLECTION
AN EGYPTIAN FAIENCE FINGER RING

THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, 22ND DYNASTY, 945-712 B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN FAIENCE FINGER RING
THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, 22ND DYNASTY, 945-712 B.C.
Blue-green in color, with a Sekhmet aegis over a lotus, her head surmounted by a uraeus-fronted solar-disk, the hoop formed of the lotus stalk
1 9/16 in. (3.9 cm.) high; right size 9
Provenance
Emile Brugsch (1842-1930), curator of the Bulaq Museum, Cairo.
Col. Anthony J. Drexel, Jr. (1864-1934), Philadelphia.
Drexel Institute Museum, Philadelphia, 1895.
Minneapolis Institute of Art, 1916 (Inventory no.16.285).
with Blumka Gallery, New York, 1958.
Greta S. Heckett, Pittsburg.
The Estate of Greta S. Heckett, Pittsburg; Sotheby's, New York, 21 May 1977, lot 275.
Literature
G. Scott, Temple, Tomb and Dwelling: Egyptian Antiquities From the Harer Family Trust Collection, San Bernardino, 1992, no. 23b.
Exhibited
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1985-1990.
San Bernardino, University Art Gallery, 1992; Arizona State University Museum, 1993; and San Antonio Museum of Art, 1993-1996; Temple, Tomb and Dwelling: Egyptian Antiquities from the Harer Family Trust Collection.
San Bernardino, Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum of Art, 1997-2011.

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For a similar example see no. 45L in C. Andrews, Ancient Egyptian Jewelry.

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