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LOT 0065
Egyptian Bronze Mirror with Wooden Handle
NEW KINGDOM, 18TH-20TH DYNASTY, 1550-1070 B.C.
11 3/8 in. (766 grams total, 29 cm high including stand).
The rounded cylindrical handle narrowing towards the base and decorated with three horizontal bands; the circular, heavy bronze mirror highly polished and relatively small; accompanied by a custom-made display stand.
Provenancewith Rupert Wace, Ancient Art, 2003.
Private collection, UK.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate no.13517-263432.
Cf. Christie's, 7 December 2006, no.21, for a near-identical example; for a mirror with a similar club handle dating to the New Kingdom, see E. Brovarski, S. K. Doll and R. A. Freed (eds.), Egypt's Golden Age: The Art of Living in the New Kingdom, 1558-1085 BC, Boston, 1982, p. 188, fig.219; Vandier d’Abbadie, J., Les objets de toilette égyptiens au Musée du Louvre, Paris, 1972, pp. 169-170, no. 756, for a similar mirror and handle; 180, 182, for examples of hem handles.
FootnotesThe club-type handle resembles the hieroglyph hem, which can mean 'servant'. Therefore, the handle is thought to represent the mirror disc's servant. This type appears in pictorial scenes; for example, a similar smaller disc mirror with a hem handle is depicted in the Theban tomb (TT 60) of Senet (Davies, N.de G., The Tomb of Antefoker, Vizier of Sesostris I, and of His Wife, Senet, London 1930, pl. 30), and another with a larger disc and a shorter hem handle is depicted on the inside of the coffin of Sebeka (Steindorff, G., Grabfunde des mittleren Reichs in den königlichen Museen zu Berlin. Part 2: Der Sarg des Sebk.-o.- ein Grabfund aus Gebelen, Berlin, 1896, 2, pl. 2).
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LOT 0065
Egyptian Bronze Mirror with Wooden Handle
Estimate £4,000 - 6,000€4,640 - 6,960 (for guidance only)$5,400 - 8,100 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£2,000 (EUR 2,320; USD 2,700) +BP*
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