Description
This lapis lazuli scarab has a hawk-head figure wearing a ram's-horn crown carved into the back. In his left hand is a staff from which a lotus blossom dangles.
Exhibitions
Jewelry - Ancient to Modern. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1979-1980.
Provenance
H. Hoffmann Collection, until 1899 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Charles Newton-Robinson, London [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Charles Newton-Robinson Sale, Christie, Manson and Woods, London, June 22, 1909, lot 3; Dikran Kelekian, Paris and New York, 1909, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1909, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
