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P. Günther and R. Wellauer, Ägyptische Steingefässe der Sammlung Rudolph Schmidt, Solothurn, Ägyptologische Hefte des Orientalischen Seminars der Universität Zürich, 1988, p. 49, pl. 36, no. 108.
Grimm-Stadelmann (ed.), Aesthetic Glimpses, Masterpieces of Ancient Egyptian Art, The Resandro Collection, Munich, 2012, p. 25, no. R-071.
For an anhydrite bowl decorated with two monkeys in relief, see acc. no. 30.8.139 in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and a kohl jar in the British Museum, acc. no. EA20759. Anhydrite was a highly prized material, often used for luxury vessels in the Middle Kingdom. The monkey was also often used as a decorative motif on cosmetic containers. As J. Bourriau explains in Pharaohs and Mortals, Egyptian Art in the Middle Kingdom, Cambridge, 1988, p. 142, "In the Middle Kingdom, monkeys are found almost exclusively as decoration on anhydrite bowls and kohl pots. They appear frequently in domestic scenes in tomb reliefs, showing that they were kept as pets, but they were also erotic symbols, which might explain their association with eye paint and other cosmetics". The application of cosmetics had a sensual and erotic connotation for the Egyptians.
P. Günther and R. Wellauer, Ägyptische Steingefässe der Sammlung Rudolph Schmidt, Solothurn, Ägyptologische Hefte des Orientalischen Seminars der Universität Zürich, 1988, p. 49, pl. 36, no. 108.
Grimm-Stadelmann (ed.), Aesthetic Glimpses, Masterpieces of Ancient Egyptian Art, The Resandro Collection, Munich, 2012, p. 25, no. R-071.
For an anhydrite bowl decorated with two monkeys in relief, see acc. no. 30.8.139 in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and a kohl jar in the British Museum, acc. no. EA20759. Anhydrite was a highly prized material, often used for luxury vessels in the Middle Kingdom. The monkey was also often used as a decorative motif on cosmetic containers. As J. Bourriau explains in Pharaohs and Mortals, Egyptian Art in the Middle Kingdom, Cambridge, 1988, p. 142, "In the Middle Kingdom, monkeys are found almost exclusively as decoration on anhydrite bowls and kohl pots. They appear frequently in domestic scenes in tomb reliefs, showing that they were kept as pets, but they were also erotic symbols, which might explain their association with eye paint and other cosmetics". The application of cosmetics had a sensual and erotic connotation for the Egyptians.