EGYPTIAN ROSETTE INLAY

Ca.1184-1153 BC
A conical-shaped glazed faience composition set with creamy brown petals on a brown background with a yellow central boss. Thousands of similar rosettes were found at the Delta site of Tell el-Yahudiya where a small palace of Ramesses III was discovered. cf. F. Dunn Friedman (ed.), Gifts of the Nile. Ancient Egyptian Faience, (Providence 1998), pp.87 & 197, nos. 55-56.
Size: L:16.4mm / W:16.5mm ; 1.27g
Provenance: Property of a London Art gallery, Ex. Tony Branson collection.
Estimate: GBP 1200 - 2000