LOT 766 Egyptian Child's Funerary Mask
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Roman Period, 30 BC-323 AD. A plastered cartonnage funerary face mask for a child with fabric backing, the smoothed surface coloured with dark pigment; the eyes coloured pale grey with black rims and pupils, the mouth outlined in black with crimson lips, raised black eyebrows. See Walker, S. & Bierbrier, M. Ancient Faces. Mummy Portraits from Roman Egypt, London, 1997; Taylor, J.H. Death and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt, London, 2001. 338 grams, 20.5cm (8"). From the Wilkinson collection, Nottinghamshire, formed since 1985; previously from the collection of the late William Venn (d. 1992); acquired as a gift in the early 1940s.
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