Large mummy mask, Early Intermediate Period, ca. 100 BC - 700 AD · Peru, Moche · ID: 3052945
Starting price
EUR 3,000
Estimated price
EUR 6,000
Provenance
Wolfgang Ketterer, Munich, 27 June 1987, lot 211Ulrich Hoffmann, Stuttgart, Germany
German Private Collection, Munich
Size
H: 22,5 cm, B: 26 cm
H: 8.9 inch, B: 10.2 inch
Description
copper sheet, mounted on a green velvet-covered panel, rest. (right ear)
Such masks were placed or sewn onto mummy bundles as false heads. These are by no means individual portraits of the deceased, but rather so-called over-portraits that represent a particular era.
Notices
This object is subject to the UNESCO Cultural Heritage Protection Act. Export documents are required for export (subjected to a fee).