EGYPTIAN NEW KINGDOM FAIENCE ROSETTE INLAY

New Kingdom, 20th Dynasty, Ca. 1184 - 1153 BC.
A glazed faience composition set with blue petals on a yellow background with a red central boss. Thousands of similar rosettes were found at the Delta site of Tell el-Yahudiya where a small palace of Ramesses III was discovered. For similar see: F. Dunn Friedman (ed.), Gifts of the Nile. Ancient Egyptian Faience, (Providence 1998), pp.87 & 197, nos. 55-56.
Size: 20mm x 18mm; Weight: 2.1g
Provenance: Prince collection, 1990s-2014, acquired from Galerie Gilgamesh Archeologie Meitterraneenne & Orientale; Ex. Collection Dr Fouquet 1850-1921.