ANCIENT EGYPTIAN ROSETTE
EGYPT, NEW KINGDOM, C. 1186 - 1155 B.C.
African & Oceanic Art and Antiquities
Auction: 16 September 2020 at 15:00 BST
Description
inlaid faience, depicting a flowering daisy, with eight white petals against a grey background
Dimensions
3.5cm diameter
Footnote
Provenance:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, deaccessioned 1958.
Mrs. M. Higgins (nee Lamont-Havers), Connecticut, United States
Note:
The rosette held a long history in ancient Egyptian decorative art, indeed it was a popular motif within many palace sites. The present example imbues the viewer with a vivid idea of Egyptian palace décor and what it might have been like to walk those corridors more than three thousand years ago. Based on its style, this particular piece is most likely to have adorned the walls of the palace of Pharaoh Ramesses III at Tell el-Yahudiya.
cf. Friedman, F. (ed.) 1997. Gifts of the Nile: Ancient Egyptian Faience. London: Thames and Hudson.