An Egyptian Polychrome and Gilt Cartonnage Mummy Mask, Late Ptolemaic Period, circa 100-30 B.C.

wearing a broad collar molded in relief and composed of multiple rows of floral and foliate beads, and blue-green tripartite wig checkered in front in blue-green and gilt and with beaded and gilt trim in relief, the eye-rims, long cosmetic lines, and tapering eyebrows painted in the same pigment as the wig.

Royal-Athena Galleries, New York
Connecticut private collection, acquired from the above on January 16th, 1976
Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, inv. no. SR 8601C
Florida private collection, acquired from the above circa 1989
Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, inv. no. LL9201C
New York private collection, acquired from the above on December 29th, 1992

 

Royal-Athena Galleries, The Age of Cleopatra: The Art of Late Dynastic and Graeco-Roman Egypt, New York, 1988, no. 28, illus.

Significant repairs and inpainting throughout, particularly along joins and repairs. Repairs with inpainting on the front include a small area above the proper right brow, small areas in the whites of each eye, down most of the top of the nose, areas under each eye, on proper left side of upper lip, across proper left side of lips, the tip of the chin, and across the wig and neck at the top of the collar; on the back, four repairs with inpainting across the width of the cartonnage, and some smaller areas of repair and inpainting. Inside partially lined for support, particularly in repaired areas. Some flaking to paint.
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