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An Egyptian painted plaster mummy mask of a girl

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7 July 2016, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

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An Egyptian painted plaster mummy mask of a girl
Roman Period, circa 2nd Century A.D.
Her hair painted black and drawn back from her forehead, with a thin band of veiling over the top of her head and falling behind the ears, the veil now in white but with some reddish paint remaining, her hair arranged in a top-knot emerging from behind the veil, her eyes and brows painted in black, her skin in a pinkish brown, with a straight nose, rounded cheeks and a small mouth, 27cm high

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Property from the Collection of Julius Kaumheimer (Munich, 1880 – San Francisco, 1957) & Selma Landauer Kaumheimer (Ulm, 1890 – San Francisco, 1961). Thence by descent. Accompanied by appraisals from 1963 and 1989 listing the mask.

Owing to mounting Nazi persecution the Kaumheimer family who were Jewish left their Stuttgart home in 1935 emigrating to Merano in Italy. The passing of anti-Jewish legislation in Italy in the summer of 1938 caused the family to once more emigrate this time to San Francisco. When leaving Italy in February 1939 Italian customs searching the Kaumheimer's household effects discovered their porcelain collection which they sequestered as contraband. Then after a fine proportional to the value of the collection had been imposed on Kaumheimer, the Local Revenue Office in Bolzano confiscated the entire collection as the property of the Italian State. The collection was then transferred to the National Museum in Trento where it was displayed for many years.

Julius Kaumheimer did manage to ship some of the family's possessions to the USA prior to the family leaving Italy thus saving some pieces from confiscation. This mask is one of those pieces. In 2003 the Kaumheimer collection was finally returned to the family by the Italian Government.

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