A RED JASPER PROFILE HEAD FACING LEFT, with cut away eye and recessed eyeline and brow, with pierced earlobe and two 'vanity wrinkles' lightly cut below the chin

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A RED JASPER PROFILE HEAD FACING LEFT, with cut away eye and recessed eyeline and brow, with pierced earlobe and two 'vanity wrinkles' lightly cut below the chin
early Dynasty XIX, probably reign of Seti I (1303-1290 B.C.)
1¼in. (3.2cm.) high

拍品专文

The eye was probably inlaid in another material. Cf. W. Stevenson Smith, Ancient Egypt, 1960, p. 143, pl. 93 for a red jasper inlay head of Seti I in Boston Museum. Also, O. W. Muscarella, Ancient Art: The Norbert Schimmel Collection, Mainz, 1974, no. 208 dated as Dynasty XVIII