AN EGYPTIAN POLYCHROME CARTONNAGE MUMMY MASK, 19TH/21ST DYNASTY, 1292-944 B.C.

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Estimate

4,000 - 6,000 GBP

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Property from a Belgian Private Collection

AN EGYPTIAN POLYCHROME CARTONNAGE MUMMY MASK, 19TH/21ST DYNASTY, 1292-944 B.C.

with finely carved outlined lips and black-painted tapering eyebrows and cosmetic lines.

Height 14.9 cm.

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French private collection, Paris, acquired in Paris in the 1960s (Drouot, Paris, Salle 16, June 13th, 2014, no. 3)

Sotheby's, New York, December 12th, 2014, no. 9, illus.

Galerie Chenel, Paris

For a similar example now in the University Museum in Philadelphia, see https://www.penn.museum/collections/object/323597.