- 108
An Egyptian Polychrome and Gilt Cartonnage Mummy Mask, late Ptolemaic Period, circa 100-30 B.C.
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
Log in to view results
bidding is closed
Description
- An Egyptian Polychrome and Gilt Cartonnage Mummy Mask
- cartonnage
- Height 48 cm.
wearing a broad beaded collar and blue tripartite wig with diadem centred by a sun-disk, a winged sun-disk above, the gilded face with eyes painted in white and black, and eyebrows and cosmetic lines painted in blue, confronted figures of the god Osiris seated on a shrine on the lappets, a figure of a goddess with sun-disk crown behind each ear.
Provenance
Robert H. deMulder (1940-2007), Laguna Beach, Hollywood Hills, and later Houston, Texas, acquired in New York in the early 1960s
George Costopulos Auctioneers, Woburn, Massachusetts, December 6th, 2015, no. 95
George Costopulos Auctioneers, Woburn, Massachusetts, December 6th, 2015, no. 95
Catalogue Note
For closely related examples see G.Grimm, Dei Römischen Mummienmasken aus Ägypten, Wiesbaden, 1974, pl.2, nos.1-4.