NEW KINGDOM, 18TH DYNASTY, REIGN OF AMENHOTEP III, 1390-1352 B.C.

The nearly forty-year reign of Amenhotep III was one of the most artistically productive in the history of Egypt. The high level of achievement in all the arts, major and minor, is well documented, including faience, as evinced by the surviving corpus from his reign. This scarab is inscribed with representations of Amenhotep III and Queen Tiye with cartouches above. For a similar scarab of the same size at the British Museum, see acc. no. EA 54439.

Adalbert and Thilda Colsma from Langenberg in North Rhine-Westphalia were avid art collectors and owners of the silk weavers' company Conze & Colsman.