EGYPTIAN ART – MUMMY MASK
THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD – TWENTY-SECOND DYNASTY
CIRCA 945 – 715 BC
Wood – Gesso
Height: 11 cm
Provenance:
With J. Khawam & Co., Cairo.
Acquired by the Cattaui family, Switzerland, from the above, 1975.
Property from the Cattaui Family Collection, Antiquities, Christie’s, New York, 4 June 2015, lot 4.
With Ariadne Galleries, New York and London, acquired from the above.
Private Collection, Pennsylvania, 2016.
From the lid of an anthropoid coffin, the heart-shaped face with arching articulated brows, large, almond-shaped, sfumato eyes, a thin straight nose and pursed lips, preserving traces of gesso throughout with some black pigment on the eyes.