Old carved stone head - Egyptian?

Does anyone have any idea where this carved stone head is from and how old it is? I thought it looked Egyptian.

It looks ancient but is it reproduction? Height is around 8.5"

Any help would be great. Thank you

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is it perhaps pottery or other composition rather than carved stone?
How about a photo of the bottom of the neck?

 

Thanks for replying. It could well be anything to be honest, I just thought the decoration look more like carved but no idea.

This is the underside

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those bubbles look like a mold of some sort.

 

would that make it not very old?

 

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I'm not seeing any bubbles.

 

I'm thinking I see small ones...but it could just be the photo..

 

JMHO, but the broad nose, generous lips, big eyes and general round shape don't look Egyptian to me

 

Size? Looks like molded pottery to me. See the mold line in the top center of head? As such, it wouldn't be ancient. I also think the features look modern.

 

Might just be my eyes....but I don't see a mold line on top of the head. Wouldn't we expect matching lines on the sides of the head and the bottom of the neck if it was molded?
Rodgerslad, you should certainly check to see if any mold lines are visible.
However, there are casting methods that don't leave lines, also.

 

African.Which means it might well be an Egyptian repro.

There was a period in Egyptian art, post Akhenaten, when you do get much more realism: generous lips, broader faces and so on.

 

Thanks for your help everyone. It doesn't have mold lines or bubbles, I have had a good look. One thing that made me think it was stone was that there are different colours which i think would be hard to do in a mold?

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So do we think it is quite modern? As in twenty years old?

 

I think it's anytime from the 1960s on - tourist piece.

 

Agree with tourist souvenir. I think the perfectly parallel, equal grooves on the base are the clue. Whether it means grinding machine or a metal grate used for drying, or what I dunno but I don't think you'll find anything like that on an antique stone bust

 

What I thought was a mold line is the crease in the top of the head. I can see now in the new picture that it is not. New pics make me think this could be hydrocal. It is a plaster-like material that is harder and shows details better than plaster. It takes color unevenly like this with penetrating stains after it has been molded. Definitely pretty modern (Last quarter of 20th century or later) if it is hydrocal.

 

Thanks ever so much for all your help. I was just curious as I had absolutely no clue what it was.

 

The different colors could be due to the firing method.

 

I think the features look more Asian or Indonesian than Egyptian