Lot 6 | EGYPTIAN HORUS FALCON MOSAIC GLASS INLAY Ptolemaic Period, ca. 300 - 30 BC...

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EGYPTIAN HORUS FALCON MOSAIC GLASS INLAY Ptolemaic Period, ca. 300 - 30 BC...

EGYPTIAN HORUS FALCON MOSAIC GLASS INLAY
Ptolemaic Period, ca. 300 - 30 BC
height cm 2; length cm 2,5; thick mm 5

A very detailed glass inlay: white body with blue facial and feather markings, opaque yellow eye with blue pupil and yellow detailed blue beak; wings with turquoise, red, yellow and detailed blue, on yellow and blue floral ground line.
Amazing crackle patina.

Provenance. English private collection; in the collection of O. Burchard, Zurich, until 1983; formerly part of the collection of M. Hess, Basel - Hotel Jura.