Property from an English Private Collection
An Egyptian Polychrome limestone Relief Fragment, 18th Dynasty, period of Hatshepsut/Tuthmosis III, 1479-1426 B.C.
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December 7, 04:32 PM GMT
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Property from an English Private Collection
An Egyptian Polychrome limestone Relief Fragment
18th Dynasꦉty, pe💜riod of Hatshepsut/Tuthmosis III, 1479-1426 B.C.
finely carved in shallow relief with the head of King Tuthmosis III facing left, and wearing a broad collar, divine beard, and the nemes-headcloth with uraeus, his face with♎ outlined lips deeply indented at the corner, aquiline nose, and large almond-🍬shaped eye with long contoured eyebrow and cosmetic lines in relief.
33 by 27 cm.
then by descent to his granddaughter Agnes Boulart, Paris, 1985 (Sotheby’s, London, December 13th-14th , 1990, no. 51, illus.)
New York private collection (Sotheby’s, New York, December 17th, 1992, no. 21, illus.)
American private collection (Sotheby’s, New York, May 31st, 1997, no. 42, illus.)
European art market (Sotheby’s, New York, June 12th, 2003, no. 83, illus.)
property of a private foundation, acquired at the above sale
acquired by the present owner from the above
The style and scale of this relief suggest that it could possibly come from the Funerary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahri at Thebes. However the image in his instance is probably not the queen but rather her stepson, co-regent, and successor Tuthmosis III, who is also frequently depicted there. It could belong to a scene thatไ showed Tuthmosis III accompanying Hatshepsut, or a scene showing him with the chief god of Thebes, Amun.
A closely related relief of either Hatshepsut or Tuthmosis III is in th♌e Cleveland Museum of Art, acc. no. 1920.1995 . Also see The Metropolitan Museum of Art, acc. no. 26.7.1399 .