Inlay Depicting the Face of a King (Ptolemaic Period (332–30 BCE)): Artwork and History
Inlay Depicting the Face of a King at the Art Institute of Chicago: date, artist attribution, materials and the museum's explanation of the work.
Inlay Depicting the Face of a King (Ptolemaic Period (332–30 BCE)) is in the Art Institute of Chicago collection. The museum lists its creator attribution as Egyptian.
The work and its context
The Art Institute of Chicago describes the work:
Figures of the king or the gods made of pieces of brightly colored glass appeared about 1350 B.C. and continued to be made into the Ptolemaic period. The color follows the tradition in Egyptian art of depicting the skin of men as red.
Object facts
- Title: Inlay Depicting the Face of a King
- Date: Ptolemaic Period (332–30 BCE)
- Artist attribution: Egyptian
- Place of origin: Egypt
- Medium: Glass
- Dimensions: 2 × 1.3 × 0.5 cm (3/4 × 1/2 × 3/16 in.)
- Type: Decorative Arts
- Department: Arts of Africa
- Reference number: 1892.170
Collection credit
Gift of Henry H. Getty, Charles L. Hutchinson, and Norman W. Harris
View the original
Explore the artwork in the Art Institute's collection, including its image and the museum's current catalogue details.
The description above is credited to the Art Institute of Chicago and reused under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0; HTML formatting has been converted to plain text. Other catalogue metadata and the public-domain image are provided under CC0 1.0.
Sources
More in Lifestyle
Keep reading
