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Lot 42

An Egyptian polychrome gilt cartonnage mummy mask

28 November 2017, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

£3,000 - £5,000

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An Egyptian polychrome gilt cartonnage mummy mask
Ptolemaic Period, circa 332-30 B.C.
The gilt face with brows and cosmetic lines framing large eyes, wearing a tripartite blue wig, with a mummy netting beadwork pattern to either side of the lappets, a beaded broad collar visible between, 54cm high approx.

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Provenance:
Senator Friedrich Kartenkaemper collection, Braunschweig, acquired in Germany in the 1970s; and thence by descent to the present owner.

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