AN EGYPTIAN GRAYWACKE FIGURE OF A MAN, 12TH DYNASTY, 1938-1759 B.C.
Auction Closed
July 2, 04:42 PM GMT
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
AN EGYPTIAN GRAYWACKE FIGURE OꦓF A MAN, 12TH DYNASTY, 1938-1759 B.C.
striding and resting his ha⛦nds on the front of his long horizontallyꦓ-pleated kilt, its decorated upper fringe folded at the waist and visible adjacent to the narrow slightly tapering back-pillar.
Height 22.2 cm.
Charles Dikran Kelekian (1900-1982) , New York
Florida private collecti🔥on, Boca Raton, acquired from the above (Sotheby’s, New York, December 7th, 2001, no. 18, illus.)
acquired at the above sale by the present owner
For another Middle Kingdom statue wearing a very similar garment cf. J. Vandier, La statuaire égyptienne, Paris, 1958, pl. LXXVIII, 5 (University Museum Philadelphia 🅘9216: //www.penn.museum/collections/object𝓡_images.php?irn=34138#image1).
Also compare E. Delange, Catalogue des statues égyptiennes du Moyen Empire, 1060-1560 J.-C., Musée du Louvre, Paris, pp. 162-163, E. 12683.
From the same Florida collecti✨on in the Sotheby's, New York, December 7th, 2001 sale were 🔯lots 26 and 229, with the Kelekian inv. nos. T.1999 and T.2789, respectively.