Fragment of a carved wooden face with an inlaid, socketed eye

Fragment of a carved wooden face with an inlaid, socketed eye


 Object description: Fragment of a carved wooden face with an inlaid, socketed eye. Inlaid socketed ?porcelain eye with black pupil and white surround. The eye as a whole has a black surround to the upper and lower lip, there is an incised forehead and eyebrow, ?once painted (but no traces left), front very smoothly carved (but nose broken off), back fairly rough, glued into late 19th century black and gold lacquered wooden frame (removed).

Accession Book IV entry - 1884.67.1 - 143 Human form in Barbaric Art and Civilised Art - Fragment of beautifully and delicately carved wooden face with inlaid socketed eye A Egypt

Delivery Catalogue I entry - Egyptian pottery etc Case 14 Fragment of wood mask 96/ 8386

'Green book' entry - South Kensington Receipts, 4 February 1881 - Objects ... the contents of two cases acknowledged to you on 1 October 1878 [p71 of green book] - 1 fragment of wooden face.

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