New Year Gift: Incense Spoon
A.D. 1913; original ca. 1427–1400 B.C.
Medium
Tempera on paper
Dimensions
H. 7.5 cm (2 15/16 in); w. 24.5 cm (9 5/8 in), scale 1:1; framed with 30.4.177 and .179
Classification
Facsimile, Qenamun (TT 93), incense spoon; 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
30.4.180
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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...