Whale Effigy 🐳 Chumash (California, West Coast), c.1200-1600 Steatite, shell inlay, 7.1 x 9.5 cm Montreal Museum of Fine Arts 1950.51.Ab.9

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Whale Effigy 🐳 Chumash (California, West Coast), c.1200-1600 Steatite, shell inlay, 7.1 x 9.5 cm Montreal Museum of Fine Arts 1950.51.Ab.9
Cosmetic Dish in the Form of an Oryx, Egyptian (c. 1550–1069 BCE),
Steatite, 3 inches x 5 1/4 inches x 1 1/4 inches,
Image courtesy the San Antonio Museum of Art archives
~ Statue of a Crocodile with the Head of a Falcon.
Culture: Egyptian
Date: ca. 380-250 B.C.
Period: Late Period-early Ptolemaic Period; 30th Dynasty
Medium: Steatite
Egyptian Revival Necklace and Brooch, Castellani, ca. 1860.
Gold, Steatite, Faience and Micro mosaic.
Photo Courtesy of Sotheby's.
Cosmetic Vessel of Meretnubt
Egyptian, ca. 1500 BCE (New Kingdom)
This small cosmetic vessel is carved with an openwork frieze of heraldic birds flanking a cartouche with the name "King's daughter, Nubet-meryt." Meretnubt was a daughter of King Thutmose I (1504-1492 BCE). Separating the two heraldic groups are two snakes flanking a column. Above the openwork frieze is carved a series of alternating open and closed lotus flowers which ring the neck of the vessel. The glaze is particularly green in appearance.
BW Edit after Egyptian artist of the Second Intermediate Period–Early New Kingdom (Dynasty 17–18, ca. 1635–1458 B.C.) (Scarab with seated griffin) (Metropolitan Museum of Art, Acc. 16.10.221)
Cosmetic dish
Charsadda (Gandhara), 2nd century - 5th century
Pale grey steatite
Cosmetic dish decorated with a figure riding a water monster based on Roman representations of a Nereid riding a sea monster, but perhaps influenced by Indian conceptiions of the Makara - a creature like a crocodile.
Latest attac project: carved and engraved soapstone/steatite spindle whorl/
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