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Lot 346*

An Egyptian polychrome wood mummy mask

6 July 2023, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £40,960 inc. premium

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An Egyptian polychrome wood mummy mask
Late Third Intermediate - Late Period, 25th-26th Dynasty, circa 747-525 B.C.
47cm high

Footnotes

Provenance:
with Champollion Gallery, 689 Madison Avenue, New York.
Private collection, New York, acquired by the present owner from the above in 1981.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 3 June 2015, lot 14.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 4 December 2018, lot 4.
Private collection, California, acquired at the above sale.

From the lid of an inner coffin, this impressive mask has inlaid eyes, with the long eyebrows and cosmetic lines inset in bronze.

For a very similar mask, see the coffin of Horankh in the Dallas Museum of Art (obj. no. 1994.184), the eyes and eyebrows inlaid in obsidian, calcite, and bronze.

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