Lot 8
8
AN EGYPTIAN PAINTED WOOD MUMMY PORTRAIT
PROPERTY FROM AN AMERICAN COLLECTION
AN EGYPTIAN PAINTED WOOD MUMMY PORTRAIT

MIDDLE KINGDOM, 12TH-13TH DYNASTY, 1985-1650 B.C.

Details
AN EGYPTIAN PAINTED WOOD MUMMY PORTRAIT
MIDDLE KINGDOM, 12TH-13TH DYNASTY, 1985-1650 B.C.
25 ½ in. (64.8 cm.) long
Provenance
Archéologie Méditerranéenne, J.A. Labat and M.C. Slitine, Drouot Rive Gauche, Paris, 2 March 1979, lot 37bis.
Private Collection, France, acquired from the above.
Arts d'Orient, d'Inde & Archéologie, Millon et Associés, Paris, 15 December 2020, lot 233.
Art Market, London, acquired from the above.
Antiquities, Christie's, New York, 12 April 2022, lot 12.

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Lot Essay

This portrait originates from the upper portion of an anthropoid coffin, which has parallels from the sites in Meir and Dahshur. For a similar example also with a black painted face, see the well-known coffin of Nakht-Ankh from Rifeh, one of a pair from the “Tomb of Two Brothers,” now in the Manchester Museum (W.M.F. Flinders Petrie, Gizeh and Rifeh, pp. 12-13, pl. XB).

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