PROPERTY FROM A SWISS PRIVATE COLLECTION
A Fragmentary Egyptian Limestone Sculptor's Model, Ptolemaic Period, 304-30 B.C.
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July 5, 02:28 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
An Egyptian Limestone Sculptor's Model
Ptolemaic Period, 304-30 B.C.
carved in shallow relief on one side with a falcon, sacred to the🥀 god Horus, striding with head erect, the elaborate e💧ye markings finely engraved, and on the other side with the lower part of the head of a king, a demotic inscription inked across the neck, another shorter one below the chin.
Height 15.1 cm.
private collecti༺on, Belgium, acquired prior to 1980
Charles Ede Ltd., London
acquired by the present owner♑ from the above in 2015
For a related ꧂example see a relief fragment in New York (the Metropolitan Museum of Art no 07.228.12, //www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/558375).