Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art Part I

Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art Part I

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Property from an English Private Collection

An Egyptian Greywacke or Green Schist Head of the Goddess Isis or Hathor, 26th Dynasty, 664-525 B.C.

Auction Closed

December 7, 04:32 PM GMT

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from an English Private Collection

An Egyptian Greywacke or Green Schist Head of the Goddess Isis or Hathor

26th Dynasty, 664-525 B.C.


with idealizing features, wearing a long tripartite wig crowned by a diadem of uraei surmounted by cow horns and sun-disk, the rectangular back pillar uninscribed.

Height 11.4 cm.


Mrs. Henry Walters, born Sarah Wharton Green Jones (1859-1943), New York

Brummer Gallery, New York, inv. no. N5054, acquired from the above on March 15th, 1941 (https://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16028coll9/id/17461/rec/ and https://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16028coll9/id/59591/rec/37)

H. Khan Monif, New York, acquired from the above on October 30th, 1948

Royal-Athena Gallery, New York

acquired from the above by the present owner in 2013

 

For a complete example in green schist in the Brooklyn Museum, acc. no. 37.938E, see https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/4113. For related examples see G. Steindorff, Catalogue of the Egyptian Sculpture in the Walters Art Gallery, 1946, pl. 71.

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