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Lot 184

An Egyptian wood sarcophagus mask

28 November 2019, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

£15,000 - £20,000

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An Egyptian wood sarcophagus mask
Late Period, 664-332 B.C.
The face with pronounced almond-shaped eyes, framed by slender cosmetic brows carved in relief, the full lips fixed in a subtle smile, the curved headdress decorated with a striped headband and scale motifs, with remains of red, blue and black pigment, attached to a later wood frame, 33cm high

Footnotes

Provenance:
with Nicolas Taino (1866-1924), Cairo.
Mr A. collection, acquired from the above in 1956.

For similar, and a discussion of the construction of wood anthropoid sarcophagi, see Joyce L. Haynes in S. D'Auria, P. Lacovara and C.H. Roehrig, Mummies & Magic, the Funerary Arts of Ancient Egypt, Boston, 1988, p. 163-4; Haynes notes that 'the "mask" would have been carved separately by a skilled craftsman and then pegged into place on the coffin' (ibid.).

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