An Egyptian Bronze Mirror, 18th Dynasty, probably period of Amenhotep III/Akhenaten, 1390-1336 B.C.

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Description

Property from the Estate of Paul and Marianne Steiner

An Egyptian Bronze Mirror

18th Dynasty, probably period of Amenhotep III/Akhenaten, 1390-1336 B.C.

the separately cast handle in the form of a Nubian girl striding on a small rectangular base, a bird cupped in her left hand, and wearing a bracelet on the left wrist, broad collar with traces of metal inlay, large circular earrings, and striated and layered coiffure, her body with tattooed ornament.

Height 20.2 cm.

private collection, Colorado (Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, November 20th-21st, 1975, no. 372, illus.)

acquired by the current owners at the above sale

Published

Claire Derriks, Les miroirs cariatides égyptiens en bronze. Typologie, chronologie et symbolique (Münchner ägyptologische Studien, vol. 51), Mainz, 2001, p. 186

For related bronze mirrors of the 18th Dynasty see E. and A. Eggebrecht, Ägyptens Aufstieg zur Weltmacht, Roemer-und Pelizaeus-Museum, Mainz am Rhein, 1987, nos. 226 and 227, and J. Vandier d’Abbadie , Catalogue des objets de toilette égyptiens, Musée du Louvre, Paris, 1972, nos. 748-750. Also compare Egypt's Golden Age, cat. no. 218 (Brooklyn Museum, 60.27.1).