Lot 32
  • 32

An Egyptian Wood Mummy Mask , 19th/20th Dynasty, 1305-1080 B.C.

Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
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Description

  • An Egyptian Wood Mummy Mask
  • Wood
  • Height 4 13/16 in. 12.2 cm.
From an inner coffin, carved in a fine-grained hardwood, with finely carved outlined lips, straight nose, and eyes formerly detailed with paint, the back with two fragmentary tenons for attachment.

Provenance

Charles Lambert Rutherston (1866-1927), Bradford, England
Mrs. Charles Rutherston and Mrs. Rutherston Powell, Manchester, 1930s
Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., New York (Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, May 19th, 1979, no. 82, illus.)

Exhibited

on loan to The Manchester Museum, The University of Manchester, 1938
on loan to The Brooklyn Museum, 1976-1979 (inv. no. L76.11.3)

Condition

Very good, note checks in wood, shallow chip to tip of nose was restored in wood maybe using some of the wood in back, proper left side of restoration now missing.
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Catalogue Note

For a related example see the mask in the British Museum, inv. no. 6885.