This is the rating and price for Polychrome Wood Mummy Mask Of A Lady, 1997.0
Description : wearing large circular earrings, and wig with floral diadem centering an ornament composed of an inverted lotus flanked by two lotus buds, her oval face with outlined lips, slightly upward-turned nose, contoured upper lids, and long tapering eyebrows and cosmetic lines.
PROVENANCE
the label on the back reads Thèbes, Fev. 1888
LITERATURE AND REFERENCES
Égypte. Moments d'éternité. Art égyptien dans les collections privées, Suisse, catalogue of the exhibition at the Antikensammlung Basel und Sammlung Ludwig, March 18th - July 13th, 1997, and the Musée d'art et d'histoire, Geneva, September 25th, 1997 - January 11th, 1998, Geneva and Mainz, 1997, no. 130 (the catalogue states that the mask was found in February 1888 at Thebes by Ernest Cramer while in the company of his cousin the Egyptologist Henry Edouard Naville)
Voyages en Égypte de l'Antiquité au début du 20e siècle, catalogue of the exhibition at the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva, April 16th - August 31st, 2003, Geneva, 2003, p. 187, fig. 18
CATALOGUE NOTE
Cf. Lacovara and Trope, The Realm of Osiris, no. 38, and Die Ägyptische Sammlung des Bayerischen Staates, Munich, 1966, no. 77 (inv. no. ÄS 12).
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About the lot N° 76 Title : Polychrome Wood Mummy Mask Of A Lady, Period : 1997.0 Size : height 11 in. 27.9 cm. Sotheby's, auctioneer, New York, USIt's free to register now to view! Sale title : Antiquities Sale date : 07 Jun 2005It's free to register now to view! Sale Reference : Live Sale