About the lot N° 14
Title : A Bronze Figure Of Osiris
Size : height 20 5/16 in. 51.6cm
Provenance : Frederick George Hilton Price (1842-1909), London (Sotheby's, London, Catalogue of the Important and Extensive Collection of Egyptian Antiquities. The Property of the late F. G. Hilton-Price, July 12th-21st, 1911, no. 262)William Randolph Hearst, San Simeon (Sotheby's, London, Catalogue of the Important Collection of Antiquities the Property of William Randolph Hearst, Esq., comprising Prehistoric, Babylonian and Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Etruscan, Irish Celtic, Merovingian and South American Antiquities, etc., July 11th, 1939, no. 98)Sotheby's, London, December 13th, 1977, no. 188, illus.Sotheby's, London, December 13th-14th, 1982, no. 155, illus.
Literature : F. G. Hilton Price, A Catalogue of the Egyptian Antiquities in the possession of F. G. Hilton Price, London, 1897Safani Gallery, The Art of Ancient Egypt. An exhibition of archaeological works of art dating from Pre-Dynastic to Coptic Times, December 15-April 1, New York, 1970s, p. 5, illus.
Notes : For a related example of similar size in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (inv. no. 10.175.135) cf. Roeder, Ägyptische Bronzefiguren, §195a, pl. 77c.
Condition report : standing on an trapezoidal base, holding the crook and flail, and wearing an incised broad collar with beaded perimeter, braided beard with curled tip, and the atef-crown with uraeus, ram horns, and beaded tassel behind, his face with straight nose, large eyes, and contoured eyebrows in relief
