Cosmetic Spoon: Young Girl Swimming

Cosmetic Spoon: Young Girl Swimming is a late Eighteenth Dynasty Ancient Egyptian carving by an unknown artist. Completed sometime between 1400-1300 BC, it currently resides in the Louvre, Paris. These spoons are also referred to as "toilet spoons."

Cosmetics spoon featuring a swimming woman holding a duck, ivory and wood, The Louvre

It is believed that cosmetic spoons were used to throw myrrh onto fires as offerings to gods or to the dead.[1]

The spoon is made from partially painted carob wood, carved in a "sculpture in the round" fashion.

References

  1. Brresc-Bautier, Genevieve (1991). Louvre: The Collections. Reunion des Musees Nationaux. ISBN 2-7118-2489-6.114.
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