Egyptian Gilt Painted Cartonnage Mummy Mask - Art for Eternity
Egyptian Gilt Painted Cartonnage Mummy Mask - Art for Eternity
Egyptian Gilt Painted Cartonnage Mummy Mask - Art for Eternity
Egyptian Gilt Painted Cartonnage Mummy Mask - Art for Eternity
Egyptian Gilt Painted Cartonnage Mummy Mask - Art for Eternity
Egyptian Gilt Painted Cartonnage Mummy Mask - Art for Eternity
Egyptian Gilt Painted Cartonnage Mummy Mask - Art for Eternity
Egyptian Gilt Painted Cartonnage Mummy Mask - Art for Eternity
Egyptian Gilt Painted Cartonnage Mummy Mask - Art for Eternity
Egyptian Gilt Painted Cartonnage Mummy Mask - Art for Eternity
Egyptian Gilt Painted Cartonnage Mummy Mask - Art for Eternity
Egyptian Gilt Painted Cartonnage Mummy Mask - Art for Eternity
Egyptian Gilt Painted Cartonnage Mummy Mask - Art for Eternity
Egyptian Gilt Painted Cartonnage Mummy Mask - Art for Eternity
Egyptian Gilt Painted Cartonnage Mummy Mask - Art for Eternity
Egyptian Gilt Painted Cartonnage Mummy Mask - Art for Eternity Egyptian Gilt Painted Cartonnage Mummy Mask - Art for Eternity Egyptian Gilt Painted Cartonnage Mummy Mask - Art for Eternity Egyptian Gilt Painted Cartonnage Mummy Mask - Art for Eternity Egyptian Gilt Painted Cartonnage Mummy Mask - Art for Eternity Egyptian Gilt Painted Cartonnage Mummy Mask - Art for Eternity Egyptian Gilt Painted Cartonnage Mummy Mask - Art for Eternity

Egyptian Gilt Painted Cartonnage Mummy Mask

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Roman Period, late 1st Century BC to early 1st Century AD.

The gilt, modeled face with wide-open painted white eyes with black irises and black cosmetic lines and brows, the face further outlined in red. The headdress is delineated by vertical striped in blue and gold.  The broad collar can be seen at chest is also molded in gold. The sides and bottom of the mask display a red shroud with blue and yellow net pattern.
Compare with an almost identical example in Mummies and Magic The Funerary Arts of Ancient Egypt, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Ca no. 151. where Peter Lacavara writes” such masks were made over a three dimensional form by building up numerous layers coarsely woven linen stiffened with animal glue. The linen substrate was smoothed with a layer of fine white gesso made from chalk and animal glue or gum. Gold leaf was applied to this ground and burnished.
Lorelei Cocoran writes in Mummies and Magic, “The use of gold may have been a prerogative of the wealthy class but it may also have had its origins in the idea that the flesh of the sun god, with whom the deceased aspired to be united, was believed to be made of pure gold and the headdress made of lapis-lazuli.
Size: 19 inches (48cm) H. + custom mount. Condition: Excellent, tear to headdress back and small dinks to nose and chin. No restoration.

Provenance: Old European to New York collection, will be provided.

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