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This is the rating and price for A Bronze Figure of the Goddess Wadjet, 26th Dynasty, 664-525 B.C., striding on a rectangular



Description : pedestal inscribed on three sides, formerly holding the ankh and papyrus-scepter, and wearing a long close-fitting dress, armlets, broad collar, echeloned tripartite wig, and headdress in the form of the sun-disk with uraeus, her whiskers stippled and engraved, the incised inscription asking that Wadjet give life in the hereafter to a man named Pady-hor-enpe. Height without tenons 93/16 in. (23.3 cm.). pedestal inscribed on three sides, formerly holding the ankh and papyrus-scepter, and wearing a long close-fitting dress, armlets, broad collar, echeloned tripartite wig, and headdress in the form of the sun-disk with uraeus, her whiskers stippled and engraved, the incised inscription asking that Wadjet give life in the hereafter to a man named Pady-hor-enpe. Height without tenons 93/16 in. (23.3 cm.) Formerly on loan to The Brooklyn Museum of Art, 1977-1999 Provenance: Safani Gallery, New York, 1976 Published: Antiquities from the Collection of Christos G. Bastis, catalogue of the exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1987, no. 17, illus. Cf. Breitbart Collection, no. 7, and Baltimore, Egyptian Sculpture, no. 502.
Price: 23 000.00 USD It's free to register now to view!
Estimate (low-high) : 15000 USD-25000 USD It's free to register now to view!

About the lot N° 4
Title : A Bronze Figure of the Goddess Wadjet, 26th Dynasty, 664-525 B.C., striding on a rectangular
Sotheby's, auctioneer, New York, US It's free to register now to view!
Sale title : Antiquities from the Collection of the late Christos G. Bastis
Sale date : 09 Dec 1999 It's free to register now to view!
Sale Reference : Live Sale

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