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This is the rating and price for An Egyptian Faience Bes Finial, 1070.0

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Description : AN EGYPTIAN FAIENCE BES FINIAL Third Intermediate Period, Dynasty XXI-XXV, 1070-712 B.C. Blue in color with details in black glaze, the dwarf god depicted wearing a feather headdress and an animal skin, his teeth bared and tongue protruding, standing atop a papyrus umbel, offering nourishment to an infant simian held in his left hand, a simian seated between his legs, two others crouching on his shoulders, a ribbed loop for suspension behind the crown 6Ÿ in. (17.1 cm) high

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About the lot N° 25
Title : An Egyptian Faience Bes Finial, Period : 1070.0
Provenance : Antiquities and Islamic Art, Sotheby's New York, 8 June 1994, lot 10
Notes : For a similar example see no. 75 in Friedman, Gifts of the Nile. Ancient Egyptian Faience .

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