Cosmetic Spoon: Young Girl Swimming is an
ancient Egyptian carving by an unknown artist. Completed in the late
Eighteenth Dynasty, sometime between 1400 BC–1300 BC, it currently resides in the
Louvre, in
Paris, France. It was acquired by the museum in 1852.[1] The spoon is made from partially painted
carob wood, carved in a "sculpture in the round" fashion.
These spoons are also referred to as "toilet spoons". It is believed that cosmetic spoons were used to throw
myrrh onto fires as offerings to gods or to the dead.[2]
Cosmetic Spoon: Young Girl Swimming is an
ancient Egyptian carving by an unknown artist. Completed in the late
Eighteenth Dynasty, sometime between 1400 BC–1300 BC, it currently resides in the
Louvre, in
Paris, France. It was acquired by the museum in 1852.[1] The spoon is made from partially painted
carob wood, carved in a "sculpture in the round" fashion.
These spoons are also referred to as "toilet spoons". It is believed that cosmetic spoons were used to throw
myrrh onto fires as offerings to gods or to the dead.[2]