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POLYCHROME AND GILDED STUCCO CANVAS MUMMY MASK
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POLYCHROME AND GILDED STUCCO CANVAS MUMMY MASK
See original version (French)
Estimate €8,000 - €12,000
Voluntary lot
Description
POLYCHROME AND GILDED STUCCO CANVAS MUMMY MASK
Egyptian art, Ptolemaic period, 332–30 BC
A funerary mask with a gilded complexion, the eyes and eyebrows inlaid with glass, wearing a three-part headdress crowned with a diadem formed of a winged scarab and a solar disc, and adorned with a broad necklace comprising several rows of flowers and pearls. On the panels of the headdress, in the upper register, is a frieze of funerary deities who can be identified as Osiris’s assessors in the Court of the Afterlife. In the lower register, on each side, a scene depicting Horus on one side and Anubis on the other, presenting the mummified deceased to the god Osiris seated on a throne.
Minor restoration work.
Height: 39 cm
Provenance: Former collection of Hugh Stanley Russell (1924–2000), Worcestershire, assembled mainly between the 1950s and 1970s
his estate sale, Bonhams, London, 20 October 2005: lot 68 (ill.)
Christian Levett Collection, Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins
Exhibitions: Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), Mougins, France, June 2011–August 2023 (Inv. No. MMoCA207)
Caesar & Cleopatra, Historisches Museum Der Pfalz, Speyer, Germany, 13 April–26 October 2025
Bibliography: Bonhams, Antiquities, London, 20 October 2005, lot 68
P. Clayton, “Ancient Egypt” in M. Merrony (ed.), Mougins Museum of Classical Art, France, 2011, p. 54, fig. 43
A. Schubert, “Caesar’s Legacy and the New Rome” in Historisches Museum Der Pfalz Speyer (ed.), Caesar & Cleopatra, 2025, p. 236
An Egyptian polychrome and gilt cartonnage mummy mask,
Ptolemaic Period, 332–30 BC
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