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Superb Faience Winged Scarab, ex-MFA Boston Collection
Circa 663-525 BC
Description: Brightly colored blue faience funerary scarab with two separately made wings. The beetle is well modeled with striated wingcase, legs and head articulated. Wings have a textured feather appearance. The undersides of all are flat. The wings and beetle are all pierced as expected for stitching onto the mummy wrappings in antiquity. Boston Museum of Fine Arts collection numbers are in red ink on the underside: 94.243 and 94.244 legible on the wings. Particularly fine example os a very popular type. Impeccable and highly desired provenance.
Length: Approximately 4 in. (10 cm)
Condition: Intact with strong glaze and bright surface.
Provenance: Formerly in the Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, originally a Gift of Mrs. Samuel B. Warren, 1894, and deaccessioned in the early 1930s.
Reference: See Gifts of the Nile by Florence Dunn Friedman, #158, for the type. See also Accession Number #94.245 in the MFA online database for close parallel also Gifted by Mrs. Warren.
Price: $3,500
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