Zemanek-Münster

Mummy mask

Africa-Antiques, Egypt
sold EUR 800
Provenance
Auktionshaus Peretz, Saarbrücken, 25.10.1980, lot 438
Robert Zink, Ludwigshafen, Germany
Size
H: 31 cm
H: 12.2 inch

Description

wood, gypsum ground, polychrome paint, rest., small missing parts (chin, nose tip), cracks, paint rubbed off;
these masks were not intended as portraits of their subject. Rather, they represented the idealized features of the deceased following his resurrection as a divine being in the afterlife.


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