Description
The chair is beautiful, its shiny gilding and highly detailed inlays catching the sun in the Semitic Museum’s stairwell landing.
A re-creation of a piece from a 4,500-year-old tomb, the chief value of this high-backed seat — a chair or throne for the Fourth Dynasty Queen Hetepheres — does not spring from its vaunted history, nor from the gold foil that was carefully glued onto the cedar, or even the brilliant turquoise faience, each feature individually crafted in molds of plaster and silica.
(Material: Porcelain, Clay, Ceramic Composite)
(Finish: Hand-painted)
