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Lot 261*

An Egyptian wood gesso-painted mummy mask

24 October 2012, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

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An Egyptian wood gesso-painted mummy mask
Late Period, circa 664-332 B.C.
The face painted in reddish-brown with black details of the eyes, wearing a striped wig, a hole in the chin once for the false beard, 12in (30.5cm) high

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Provenance:
Collection of Reginald Berti Haselden (1881-1952), acquired in the first half of the 20th Century.

Captain Haselden was curator of manuscripts at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California, circa 1928-38 and 'pioneered the application of modern technology to the study of manuscripts': R.L. Easton Jr and W. Noel, 'Infinite Possibilities: Ten Years of Study of the Archimedes Palimpsest', Proceeding of the American Philological Society, vol. 154, no. 1, March 2010, p.53.

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