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Description : Ancient Egypt, New Kingdom to Third Intermediate Period, 19th to 25th Dynasty, ca. 1292 to 656 BCE. A beautiful example of a hand-carved cedar wood mummy mask with attractive graining and faint remains of yellow, red, green, and brown pigment atop once-white gesso. The delicate composition exhibits protruding, almond-shaped eyes beneath incised brows, a veristic nose with delineated nostrils, puffy lips with indented corners, and a rounded chin, all beneath a tall headdress that sits low on the forehead. Remains of several dowels and dowel holes are visible across the mask and show how it attached to a larger coffin lid. Wonderful patina has developed in areas where the painted gesso has worn. Lucite display stand for photography purposes only. Size: 4.3 W x 8.4 H (10.9 cm x 21.3 cm) A stylistically similar example from the Third Intermediate Period, of a smaller size, hammered for GBP 2,250 ($2,661.87) and another example from the New Kingdom, of a larger size but with nearly identical wood graining, hammered for GBP 27,500 ($32,533.96) at Christie's, London Antiquities auction (sale 15501, July 3, 2018, lots 5 & 22). Provenance: private New Jersey, USA collection, ex-Palmyra Heritage gallery, with written provenance to November, 1948, from a Cairo dealer Salahaddin Sirmali Bey, who sold it to Ezeldeen Taha Eldarir Bey All items legal to buy/sell under U.S. Statute covering cultural patrimony Code 2600, CHAPTER 14, and are guaranteed to be as described or your money back. A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany all winning bids. We ship worldwide and handle all shipping in-house for your convenience. #153214
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