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Lot 98
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An Egyptian Terracotta Canopic Jar Lid, 18th Dynasty, Tuthmoside, circa 1490-1390 B.C.

Estimate
4,500 - 5,500 GBP
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Description

  • An Egyptian Terracotta Canopic Jar Lid
  • TERRACOTTA
  • Height 12.1 cm. diameter 18.4 cm.
wearing a broad collar and wide wig with pronounced flare at the shoulders, the eyes and other detail painted in black.

Provenance

Private collection, France, prior to 1950
Rupert Wace Ancient Art, London, April 28, 2008

Exhibited

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, October 2010-December 2016

Catalogue Note

For related canopic jar lids compare Catalogue General Antiquities Egyptiennes, Du Musee du Caire, Canopics, Cairo, 1967, no. 4599, and S. D’Auria, P. Lacovara, and C.H.Roehrig, Mummies & Magic, the Funerary Arts of Ancient Egypt, Boston, 1988, p. 149, no. 91.