Master Paintings & Sculpture from Four Millennia Part II

Master Paintings & Sculpture from Four Millennia Part II

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Property formerly in the Estate of Yousuf and Estrellita Karsh

An Egyptian Limestone Sphinx of a Ptolemaic King, Ptolemaic Period, probably reign of Ptolemy II, 285-246 B.C.

Live auction begins on:

February 6, 03:00 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 USD

Bid

28,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property formerly in the Estate of Yousuf and Estrellita Karsh

An Egyptian Limestone Sphinx of a Ptolemaic King, Ptolemaic Period, probably reign of Ptolemy II, 285-246 B.C.


recumbent on an high rectangular base with the tail curled around the right hindquarter, the youthful face with finely carved almond-shaped eyes, and wearing a broad beaded collar and the nemes headcloth with uraeus and queue, the base with remnants of an inscription in front.


Length: 22 in.; 56 cm

Ars Antiqua, Lucerne, Auktion IV. Antike Kunstwerke, December 7th, 1962, no. 6, illus.

Aloys Faust, Cologne

Yousuf and Estrellita Karsh, Ottawa and Boston, acquired from the above on June 23rd, 1964

then by descent to the present owner

Jaromír Malek, with Diana Magee and Elizabeth Miles, Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Statues, Reliefs and Paintings, Vol. VIII: Objects of Provenance Not Known, Oxford, 1999, entry no. 800-880-720.

Recorded in the photo archive of H. W. Müller, which gives a record of the object when it was offered at auction in 1962: https://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/cgi-bin/hwm/hwm03.pl?SatzNrn=4963

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