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An Egyptian Polychrome Wood Mask, 22nd/24th Dynasty, 944-716 B.C.

Lot Closed

December 17, 01:57 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

An Egyptian Polychrome Wood Mask

22nd/24th Dynasty, 944-716 B.C. 


with broad oval face, bow-shaped mouth with finely outlined lips, straight nose, and almond-shaped eyes with long eyebrows and cosmetic lines painted in black, the remaining central portion of the wig with tenon for attachment.

Height 20.3 cm.

William Talbot Ready, Rathbone Place, London
Colonel Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers (1827-1900), Rushmore Park, acquired from the above on March 17th, 1891
Sotheby & Co., London, February 24th, 1975, no. 125
Private collection, United Kingdom
Charles Ede, Ltd., London
acquired by the current owner from the above

RECORDED

Cambridge University Library, Pitt-Rivers 2nd Collection Albums, vol. II, p. 666, no. 1, including a watercolour of the mask.


PUBLISHED

Charles Ede, Ltd., London, Catalogue 190, 2015, no. 6, illus.

Pitt-Rivers Museum, Farnham, Dorset, Room 7, Case 78
For a related example still attached to the coffin lid compare Life and Death Under the Pharaohs: Egyptian Art from the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden, The Netherlands, 2002, no. 199.