Egyptian Painted Wood Sarcophagus Mask with Inlays

SKU: HQ.0082

Origin: Egypt
Circa: Late Period c. 525 - 332 BC
Dimensions: 15.5" h (40cm h) excl. stand
Medium: Wood, Bronze, Stone

Made of carved wood and painted cartonnage, of a man, wearing a blue and yellow striped tripartite wig, the sides of which are now missing, with an red-brown painted face, with bronze inlaid brows and lids, and composite eyes of stone.

Personal collection of designer Craig Wright

A mask of this size would have come from the lid of a large anthropomorphic sarcophagus.

"Craig Wright", by Peter Haldeman for Architectural Digest, 31st August 2003

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Egyptian Painted Wood Sarcophagus Mask with Inlays

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