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ART
FROM THE TIME OF THE PHARAOHS
Charles Lang Freer’s interest in glazed ceramics from Asia
inspired him to seek out glazed pottery from ancient civilizations.
When he learned that the oldest known glazed pottery (at the time)
had been excavated in Egypt, he traveled there to add samples to
his collection. As a result of his three trips to Egypt between
1906 and 1910, Freer became convinced that his collection would
also be incomplete without examples of ancient Egyptian sculpture.
ANCIENT EGYPTIAN COLLECTION
Number of objects: more than 1,000
Historical range: 2,500 B.C.E.– 400 C.E.
HIGHLIGHTS
• A painted wooden shrine containing a standing figure of
Horus, the Egyptian sky god represented with the head of a falcon,
both of which date to the Ptolemaic Dynasty (ca. 305–30 B.C.E.)
• A world-famous collection of glass vessels produced during
Dynasty 18 (ca. 1539–1295 B.C.E.)
• A pair of stone falcons, probably from a temple near Alexandria,
dating to the Ptolemaic dynasty
• Amulets made of faience, stone, metal, and glass depicting
gods, goddesses, and sacred animals
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Egyptian Art Exhibitions
Small Glass Vessels and Sculpture Collected by Charles Lang Freer
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