This finely rendered anthropoid upper coffin lid depicts the deceased wearing a long tripartite wig with a black scarab in the center of the brow, wearing a long false plaited beard and a broad collar of alternating red and green darts on yellow ground across the chest above a horizontal panel containing four mummiform figures in profile and a line of text that begins a standard offering formula " May a royal offering be given…” . The face with dark reddish-brown skin tone, large white eyes with round black pupils and cosmetic lines, long black eyebrows, and carved nose and mouth. Across the face and brow, pigments stained to a faint pink color from oil poured over the deceased.
Condition: Professionally stabilized and conserved with losses to polychrome that do not detract. Museum quality custom mount. A fantastic piece!
Dimensions: height 26.5 inches (67.3 centimeters) width 16.5 inches (42 centimeters)
Provenance: Private California collection acquired from the trade in 1972 and then by descent
