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LOT 0477
Egyptian Painted Wooden Mask
LATE PERIOD, 664-332 B.C.
7 7/8 in. (170 grams, 20 cm).
D-shaped in plan with carved facial detailing, thick nose and narrow mouth, with ochre-coloured painted finish; pierced for attachment. [No Reserve]
Provenancewith a London, UK gallery, 1971-early 2000s.
LiteratureCf. Schneider, H.D. The Memphite Tomb of Ḥoremḥeb. Commander-in-Chief of Tut’ankhamūn II. A Catalogue of the Finds, London, 1996, pl. 57, for a similar example of a slightly earlier date.
FootnotesThis is the face and front portion of a wig belonging to a mummiform wooden coffin. It was attached using wooden dowels, the holes for which are visible.
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Phoenician Bronze Statuette of a Naked Female
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Acquired in Egypt by Lieutenant James Alexander Goodman in the 1920s. Thence by descent to his grandson.
Lieutenant Goodman served in the 4th Battalion Welsh Regiment during World War I and saw action in Palestine during the capture of Bethlehem, (for which he won an MC). After the war, he setup a business selling Fordson trucks and tractors in Alexandria, Egypt. A keen antiquarian, he collected ancient objects during his time in Alexandria and when he visited the pyramids at Giza. After his first marriage failed, he returned to the UK in the early 1930s. On his death in 1959, he passed his small collection of Egyptian objects on to his second wife, Ruby Goodman. On Ruby’s death in 1994, they were left to their second daughter, Rosemary Johnson, (née Goodman), and are currently in the possession of her son.
