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AN EGYPTIAN FAIENCE HIPPOPOTAMUS

Description : AN EGYPTIAN FAIENCE HIPPOPOTAMUS MIDDLE KINGDOM, 11TH-12TH DYNASTY, 2040-1783 B.C. Turquoise blue in color, the corpulent beast naturalistically modelled, depicted striding forward, its left legs advanced, with bulging eyes, a wide snout and rippling flesh along the neck, decorated in black glaze with a symmetrical composition comprised of buds, pads and lilies, a lily atop its head, the legs ritually broken in antiquity 8 in. (20.3 cm.) long

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About the lot N° 5
Title : AN EGYPTIAN FAIENCE HIPPOPOTAMUS
Provenance : with Charles Ratton, Paris, 1970s. Bernard H. Friedman, East Hampton, New York. Ben Heller, New York, 1978. California Private Collection; Antiquities, Sotheby's, New York, 9 December 2003, lot 49. with Phoenix Ancient Art, Geneva and New York (Art of the Two Lands: Egypt from 4000 B.C. to 1000 A.D., 2006, no. 12).
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