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LOT 0066
Egyptian Blue Glass Mummy Eye Pair
LATE PERIOD, 664-332 B.C.
2 1/4 in. (44.35 grams total including stand, 56 mm each).
Composed of overpainted white sclerae with obsidian irises, set into contoured blue glass lids with extending cosmetic lines; mounted on a custom-made display stand.
Provenance
Property of a North American gentleman, London, UK, 1990-2010.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate number no.13254-252260.
Literature
For a similar blue glass eyeliner inlay see Goldstein, S.M., Pre-Roman and Early Roman Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, no. 456, p.172.
Footnotes
The eyes would have been applied to a mummy case. They were carefully bevelled and ground to fit the original mummy case. They could also have been used for the mummy masks.
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