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Recorded provenance


Description : LATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXVI-XXX, 664-343 B.C. Solid cast on a square integral base, a tenon below, the deity depicted mummiform, holding a crook and a flail in his hands, wearing a broad collar, a braided divine beard and a plumed atef-crown fronted by a uraeus, the idealizing features of the face well detailed, the eyelids, cosmetic lines and brows, and the beard straps inlaid in copper, the crook similarly inlaid, the plumes of the crown, plaits of the beard and the strands of the broad collar inlaid in gold, the four sides of the base with an incised hieroglyphic inscription reading, in part, A statement by Osiris-Wenenefer, give protection, joy, goodly prosperity...to Hor...tef-nakht 7 1/2 in. (19.1 cm.) high excluding tenon
Price: 42 000.00 USD It's free to register now to view!
Estimate (low-high) : 25000 USD-35000 USD It's free to register now to view!

About the lot N° 23
Title : An Egyptian Bronze Osiris
Provenance : with Charles Ede Ltd, London, 1984.
Literature : R.S. Bianchi and J. McDonald, Exhibition catalogue, In the Tomb of Nefertari: Conservation of the Wall Paintings, Malibu, 1992, no. 35, p. 78.G.D. Scott, III, Exhibition catalogue, Temple, Tomb and Dwelling: Egyptian Antiquities from the Harer Family Trust Collection, San Bernardino, 1992, no. 89, pp. 141 and 143.
Christie's, auctioneer, New York, US It's free to register now to view!
Sale title : Ancient Egyptian Art from the Harer Family Trust Collection
Sale date : 09 Dec 2005 It's free to register now to view!
Sale Reference : Live Sale

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