La Femme, Dessins de J. Jourdain

Ch. Desroches-Noblecourt (assistante au Musée du Louvre)

During the long millennia, the artisans of ancient Egypt knew realize, beside the imperishable masterpieces of work of statuary and relief, the finest productions of the jewelry. Traditional decorative themes, mingled an original fantasy sometimes also very discrete foreign influences (Aegean and Oriental) than the Egyptian, with his innate sense of aesthetics, without assimilating knew that the work in so far should lose , the mark of his own genius.
Decorate, but also protect these were the two roles of ancient Egyptian jewelry whose names remind us, if need be, deep prophylactic value.