Statuette of a bird
This statuette is not what it first seems. The collector acquired it thinking it was a genuine ancient Egyptian object. More recently it has been identified as a 19th or 20th century fake made for the tourist market.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 49/1949/11a
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Foreign archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- North Africa
- Collector Excavator
- McAlpine Woods, Roland and Gertrude
- Material
- stone
- Common Name
- statuette of a bird
- Simple Name
- statuette
- Period Classification
- Victorian (1837-1901); Edwardian (1901-1914)
