Winged Scarab, between 663 and 525 BC

  • Egyptian

Faience

  • 1 7/8 x 4 1/4 x 1/4 inches. (4.8 x 10.8 x 0.6 cm) Overall: 2 3/4 x 10 1/4 x 7/8 inches.

Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth and Allan Shelden Fund

51.226.C

(Dikran G. Kelekian, Inc. New York, New York, USA)

1951-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

DIA BULLETIN, vol 31, nos 3 & 4, 1951-52, p 62 (ill). Exh. Cat. Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, GIFTS OF THE NILE: ANCIENT EGYPTIAN FAIENCE, May 10, 1998-April 25, 1999. #158, ill. p.150.

Egyptian, Winged Scarab, between 663 and 525 BC, Faience. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth and Allan Shelden Fund, 51.226.C.