Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art

Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art

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An Egyptian Polychrome and Gilt Cartonnage Mummy Mask, late Ptolemaic/early Roman Period, circa 1st Century B.C./ 1st Century A.D.

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12,000 - 18,000 GBP

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An Egyptian Polychrome and Gilt Cartonnage Mummy Mask

late Ptolemaic/early Roman Period, circa 1st Century B.C./ 1st Century A.D.


wearing a blue tripartite wig with applied diadem in relief, a winged scarab and sun-disk flanked by two short columns of inscription above, a djed pillar flanked by uraei on each side, the gilt face with glass-inlaid eyes, eyebrows, and cosmetic lines.

Height 42.5 cm.

Yvonne Moreau-Gobard, Orient-Occident, 5 rue des Saints-Pères, Paris, acquired prior to December 28th, 1977

Guy Delbès, Paris and La Croix-Blanche, acquired in the 1980s

Guyenne Enchères, Agen, December 4th, 2021, no. 23

acquired by the present owner at the above sale

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