New Year Gift: Cosmetic Box
A.D. 1913; original ca. 1427–1400 B.C.
Medium
Tempera on paper
Dimensions
H. 11 cm (4 5/16 in.); W. 21.5 cm (8 7/16 in.), scale 1:1; Framed with 30.4.179 and .180: H. 33 cm (13 in.); W. 47.9 cm (18 7/8 in.)
Classification
Facsimile, Qenamun (TT 93), cosmetic box; Drink-and-be-Merry; New-Year-Gift2
Period
Twentieth Century; original New Kingdom
Department
Egyptian Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1930
Accession Number
30.4.177
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About the Artist
Norman de Garis Davies · 1865–1941
Norman de Garis Davies (1865–1941) was a British Egyptologist and archaeological artist whose meticulous copies of ancient Egyptian tomb paintings constitute one of the most important records of pharaonic art ever made. Born in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, he originally trained for the ministry before being drawn into Egyptology through his involvement with the Egypt Exploration Fund in the 1890...