Inv. n°: MMoCA772

Egyptian Painted Wall Fresco Fragment

Polychrome on plaster over a mud base. Depicting two female figures seated on a couch, probably at a banquet. Both wearing long white sheath-type dresses with shoulder straps, and broad collars decorated with petals in white, blue and red.

h. 26 x w. 22 x 5 cm

New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, Tuthmosis III, c. 1479-1425 BC

Fresco

Provenance

  • G. Darmon collection, Paris, acquired in the early 1960s
  • Drouot, Paris, March 1999
  • Acquried at Bonhams, London, 5th October 2011, lot 23

Publications

  • Rupert Wace Ancient Art, In our own image - Golds and Mortals in Ancient Art, 2008, lot 3

Exhibitions

  • Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), Mougins, France, from June 2011

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