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Egyptian Faience Mummy Bead Mask with Netting Egyptian Faience Mummy Bead Mask with Netting Egyptian Faience Mummy Bead Mask with Netting
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LOT 0476

Egyptian Faience Mummy Bead Mask with Netting

PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, 332-30 B.C.

5 3/4 in. (52.7 grams, 14.5 cm wide).

A netted beadwork panel of annular and tubular glazed composition beads in blues, greens, black, cream and red-brown colours, depicting a mummy face-mask with false beard; restrung with some later beads.

Provenance

Ex Mariaud de Serres, Paris, France, 1980-1990s.
From a London, UK, collection.

Literature

Cf. Bienkowski, P., Tooley, A., Gifts of The Nile: Ancient Egyptian Arts and Crafts in Liverpool Museum, Liverpool, 1995, p.68 and pl.103, for an example still attached to a mummy.

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LOT 0476

Egyptian Faience Mummy Bead Mask with Netting

Sold for (Inc. bp): £364

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