Cornflower Pendant

Blue and green faience mould made cornflower pendant with suspension loop at the base of the calyx. Blue petals and green calyx with blue thread-hole. This would have been strung to form an openwork broad collar characteristic of the 18th Dynasty. Cornflowers were used in the New Kingdom for floral collars, such as in the well preserved examples from Tutankhamun’s embalming cache now kept at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Faience copies of the different flowers and petals used in such floral collars were very popular in the 18th Dynasty.