AN EGYPTIAN POLYCHROME PAINTED CARTONNAGE PANEL ROMAN PERIOD, CIRCA 1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D. Brightly painted in blue, red, black and white on a pink ground, the upper register, partially preserved, shows the mummified deceased lying on a bier with lion paw legs, the four canopic jars below; the register below with five mummiform deities, including the Four Sons of Horus, flanked on either side by Hathor heads; two vertical columns below arranged into four registers, the upper two registers with mummiform deities arranged in pairs and facing the deities in the opposite column; the third register with a standing winged deity in each column facing the deity in the opposite column; the bottom register with a jackal-headed deity in each column facing the other, rosettes around the edge Cartonnage: 58.5cm high; glazed frame, 77.3cm high, 40cm wide Provenance: Collected by Gustave Jéquier (1868-1946) Christie's New York, Antiquities, 4 June 2008 lot 29, where purchased by Robert Kime
AN EGYPTIAN POLYCHROME PAINTED CARTONNAGE PANEL ROMAN PERIOD, CIRCA 1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D. Brightly painted in blue, red, black and white on a pink ground, the upper register, partially preserved, shows the mummified deceased lying on a bier with lion paw legs, the four canopic jars below; the register below with five mummiform deities, including the Four Sons of Horus, flanked on either side by Hathor heads; two vertical columns below arranged into four registers, the upper two registers with mummiform deities arranged in pairs and facing the deities in the opposite column; the third register with a standing winged deity in each column facing the deity in the opposite column; the bottom register with a jackal-headed deity in each column facing the other, rosettes around the edge Cartonnage: 58.5cm high; glazed frame, 77.3cm high, 40cm wide Provenance: Collected by Gustave Jéquier (1868-1946) Christie's New York, Antiquities, 4 June 2008 lot 29, where purchased by Robert Kime
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