Ms. Codex 273 - Liber Ethicorum Aristotelis

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Berthe Morisot (French, 1841 - 1895): River in the Bois de Boulogne (1886) (via Sotheby’s)

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Girdle of Princess Sithathor

This girdle of the Princess Sithathor is made of eight gold, half-open cowry shells. The ones at each end have flat reverses, and were joined by means of grooves to serve as a clasp, fastening the girdle when they slid one into the other. The shells are separated from each other by rhomboidal polychrome beads of carnelian, feldspar, and lapis lazuli.

Gold cowry shells were imitations of the real cowry shells that had been used in belts, bracelets, anklets, and necklaces since the pre-dynastic period. People thought that cowry shells possessed powerful magical properties and increase female fertility.

Princess Sithathor was a daughter of King Senusret II, and was most probably a sister of Senusret III, as she was buried within his pyramid complex at Dahshur. Very fine pieces of jewelry that belonged to her were found in her tomb; they are now preserved in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.

Middle Kingdom, 12th Dynasty, reign of Senusret II, ca. 1897-1878 BC. Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. JE 30858

Marguerite Gérard (French, 1761 - 1837): The reading of the gazette (via Sotheby’s)

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Portrait of Anna Pitt as Hebe, by Louise Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, 1792 (detail) 

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The Reading Lesson. Knut Ekwall (Swedish, 1843-1912). Oil on canvas.

While the father reads and the child in the foreground is writing, the mother is providing instruction on reading to the other children.