Inlay: Head of a King
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Inlays · red jasper
Inlay: Head of a King, 380–246 BCE. Egypt, Greco-Roman period (332 BCE–395 CE), Ptolemaic dynasty (305–30 BCE). Red jasper; overall: 4.4 x 3.2 x 1.8 cm (1 3/4 x 1 1/4 x 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, James Parmelee Fund, 1966.370
Descent of Inlay: Head of a King
Annotations from the network
Footnote-style observations from other contributors, folded into the layer's margins. Visible, but quiet.
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Note how the Prussian blue sits in the wave's trough versus its crest — later Hokusai impressions stabilize this gradient, but early pulls like this one still feel like the pigment is being tested against the page.
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The cover of Debussy's 1905 Durand edition of La Mer reproduces this print at the composer's request. A cross-medium lineage worth branching into its own layer.
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Cross-impression XRF of this series (see descendant analysis) supports distinct pulls over the run — not a single uniform batch, but a recarved block drifting as it wore.