AN EGYPTIAN WOODEN CARTOUCHE-SHAPED COSMETIC BOWL

NEW KINGDOM, 18TH DYNASTY, CIRCA 1550-1292 B.C.

Details

AN EGYPTIAN WOODEN CARTOUCHE-SHAPED COSMETIC BOWL
NEW KINGDOM, 18TH DYNASTY, CIRCA 1550-1292 B.C.
Deeply recessed, the underside sloping to a narrow foot
5 in. (12.5 cm.) long

Provenance

Léon de Laborde (1807-1869) collection, Paris; and thence by descent.
Lord McAlpine of West Green (1942-2014) collection.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 8 December 1993, lot 173.
Resandro collection, acquired from the above sale.

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Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Grimm-Stadelmann, 2012, p. 50, no. R-170.

Léon de Laborde (1807-1869), identified as the former owner of this bowl by a collection label on the underside, was a French archaeologist and diplomat. After extensive travels in Egypt, Syria and Asia Minor, he returned home to Paris and was made conservator of the Musée de Louvre in 1847, and director-general of the archives of the French Empire in 1857.

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