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Lot 249

An Egyptian cartonnage footcase from a child's mummy

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3 July 2019, 10:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

£4,000 - £6,000

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An Egyptian cartonnage footcase from a child's mummy
Roman Period, circa 3rd Century A.D.
The front painted in ochre and red, depicting feet wearing thonged sandals, with rectangular toenails, the base showing the sandals' soles, decorated in black with a scale pattern, each side showing a ba bird above three seated deities within panels, outlined in black against a turquoise ground, 16.5cm high

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Provenance:
Private collection, UK, acquired prior to 1980.
with Archea Ancient Art, Amsterdam.
Private collection, Cleveland, Ohio, acquired from the above in 2010.
Anonymous sale; Bonhams, London, 3 April 2014, lot 186.
Private collection, UK, acquired at the above sale.

For a similar design of thonged sandals painted on a linen shroud, dated A.D. 200-250, cf. S. Walker and M. Bierbrier, Ancient Faces, Mummy Portraits from Roman Egypt, London, 1997, p.114, no. 110.

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