Design for a Frame with Two Compartments and a Crowned Lion by Anonymous, Italian, 17th century, Drawings and Prints
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1952
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Pen and brown ink over traces of graphite (or black chalk) underdrawing
Made of gold with lapis lazuli, it was probably worn by Ramesses II
(reigned circa 1279-1213 BCE)
before being buried with him. It had a hinge allowing to easily be taken off. And it was decorated with a pair of ducks’ heads, because gold and lapis lazuli aren’t fancy enough for a pharaoh.