Vintage Gold-plated Charm Pendants on a Necklace, MMA 1976 Vessels - Clay collected during the 1950s–1960s

collected during the 1950s–1960s

Condition: Some scattered surface deposits

Thereafter private NYC collection

but examples are also known from female tombs on Rhodes

with many mouths to feed that her family was brought up

Vintage Gold-plated Charm Pendants on a Necklace, MMA 1976 Vessels - Clay collected during the 1950s–1960sThese vintage gold plated charms, comprising an owl, two Ma'at feathers, and two folded cloth symbols as part of the 1976 Metropolitan Museum of Art's Treasures of Tutankhamun Exhibit. They have recently been strung as a necklace using coin shaped freshwater baroque pearls and gold plated spacers. The Pharaoh Owl was much respected and feared throughout Egypt. It was honored through mummification and sculpture and was used as the hieroglyphic symbol