POLYCHROME AND GILDED STUCCO CANVAS MUMMY MASK
POLYCHROME AND GILDED STUCCO CANVAS MUMMY MASK
Egyptian art, Ptolemaic period, 332–30 B.C.
A funerary mask with a gilded complexion, eyes and eyebrows inlaid with glass, wearing a three-part headdress crowned with a diadem featuring a winged scarab and a winged sun disk, and adorned with a wide necklace consisting of several rows of flowers and pearls. On the panels of the headdress, in the upper register, is a frieze of funerary deities who can be identified as Osiris’s assessors in the Court of the Afterlife. In the lower register, on each panel, a scene depicting Horus on one side and Anubis on the other, presenting the mummified deceased to the god Osiris seated on a throne.
Minor restorations.
Height: 39 cm
Provenance: Former collection of Hugh Stanley Russell (1924–2000), Worcestershire, assembled primarily between the 1950s and 1970s
his estate sale, Bonhams, London, October 20, 2005: lot 68 (ill.)
Christian Levett Collection, Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins
Exhibitions: Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), Mougins, France, June 2011–August 2023 (Inv. No. MMoCA207)
Caesar & Cleopatra, Historisches Museum Der Pfalz, Speyer, Germany, April 13–October 26, 2025
Bibliography: Bonhams, Antiquities, London, October 20, 2005, lot 68
P. Clayton, “Ancient Egypt” in M. Merrony (ed.), Mougins Museum of Classical Art, France, 2011, p. 54, fig. 43
A. Schubert, “Caesar’s Legacy and the New Rome” in Historisches Museum der Pfalz Speyer (ed.), Caesar & Cleopatra, 2025, p. 236
An Egyptian polychrome and gilt cartonnage mummy mask,
Ptolemaic Period, 332–30 B.C.
POLYCHROME AND GILDED STUCCO CANVAS MUMMY MASK
Egyptian art, Ptolemaic period, 332–30 B.C.
A funerary mask with a gilded complexion, eyes and eyebrows inlaid with glass, wearing a three-part headdress crowned with a diadem featuring a winged scarab and a winged sun disk, and adorned with a wide necklace consisting of several rows of flowers and pearls. On the panels of the headdress, in the upper register, is a frieze of funerary deities who can be identified as Osiris’s assessors in the Court of the Afterlife. In the lower register, on each panel, a scene depicting Horus on one side and Anubis on the other, presenting the mummified deceased to the god Osiris seated on a throne.
Minor restorations.
Height: 39 cm
Provenance: Former collection of Hugh Stanley Russell (1924–2000), Worcestershire, assembled primarily between the 1950s and 1970s
his estate sale, Bonhams, London, October 20, 2005: lot 68 (ill.)
Christian Levett Collection, Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins
Exhibitions: Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), Mougins, France, June 2011–August 2023 (Inv. No. MMoCA207)
Caesar & Cleopatra, Historisches Museum Der Pfalz, Speyer, Germany, April 13–October 26, 2025
Bibliography: Bonhams, Antiquities, London, October 20, 2005, lot 68
P. Clayton, “Ancient Egypt” in M. Merrony (ed.), Mougins Museum of Classical Art, France, 2011, p. 54, fig. 43
A. Schubert, “Caesar’s Legacy and the New Rome” in Historisches Museum der Pfalz Speyer (ed.), Caesar & Cleopatra, 2025, p. 236
An Egyptian polychrome and gilt cartonnage mummy mask,
Ptolemaic Period, 332–30 B.C.
