Lot 55
An Egyptian Polychrome Wood Mummy Mask
Sale 1099 - Ancient Art & Natural History: A Cabinet of Curiosities
Nov 10, 2022
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$12,000 -
18,000
Price Realized
$21,250
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Lot Description
An Egyptian Polychrome Wood Mummy Mask
Late Period to Ptolemaic Period, 664-30 B.C.
Height 29 9/10 inches (76 cm).
This lot is located in Chicago.
Provenance:
Beaussant Lefèvre & Associés, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Art d'Asie, 10 April 2013, Lot 28.
[accompanied with copy of a French Ministry of Culture export certificate]
Art Loss Register no. S00079929.
From the lid of an inner coffin, this idealized portrait depicts its subject wearing a colorful Usekh (broad collar) and striped tripartite wig. The face is featured with full lips that round at the corners, a straight nose, inlaid eyes, and long eyebrows and cosmetic lines inset in glass.
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