Dish in the Form of a Trussed Duck

Dish in the Form of a Trussed Duck

Cosmetic dishes in the form of trussed ducks were made throughout the Eighteenth Dynasty, This example shows the bird with its head turned back; the duck's openwork neck forms the handle of the dish.

MEDIUM Alabaster or aragonite

•Place Made: Africa

DATES ca. 1336-1327 B.C.E., ca. 1327-1323 B.C.E., or ca. 1323-1295 B.C.E.

DYNASTY late XVIII Dynasty

PERIOD New Kingdom

DIMENSIONS 2 7/8 x 5/8 x 5 3/4 in. (7.3 x 1.6 x 14.6 cm) 2 11/16 x 5 15/16 in. (6.8 x 15.1 cm)

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/3062

Alabaster toilet dish in the form of a trussed duck. Head curved and joined to front of dish with openwork neck forming handle. Wings and feet incised on underside of dish. Eyes inlaid with black substance. This may be a cover for a stone vessel, which was probably intended to hold paint. Condition: Perfect. One edge of interior of dish has slight depression with brown stains.