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 .