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This is the rating and price for AN EGYPTIAN FAIENCE SISTRUM



Description : Late Period, Dynasty XXVI, 664-525 B.C. Green and blue in color, depicting the cow-eared goddess Hathor with an elaborate broad collar, each side of her head flanked with a uraeus, surmounted by a cavetto molding originally supporting a naos, with a uraeus topped with a solar-disk in each panel, the columnar handle inscribed "the good god, the Lord of the Two Lands, Psametik, the son of the sun, Wahibre...sa...Neith, living Forever" 9 in. (22.9 cm) high PROVENANCE Antiquities, Sotheby's London, 11 July 1988, lot 52 Antiquities, Sotheby's London, 12 June 1997, lot 339 Crescent Gallery, Tokyo NOTES For a similar example see no. 91 in Friedman, Gifts of the Nile, Ancient Egyptian Faience.
Price: 18 800.00 USD It's free to register now to view!
Estimate (low-high) : 20000 USD-30000 USD It's free to register now to view!

About the lot N° 369
Title : AN EGYPTIAN FAIENCE SISTRUM
Christie's, auctioneer, New York, US It's free to register now to view!
Sale title : ANTIQUITIES
Sale date : 07 Dec 2000 It's free to register now to view!
Sale Reference : Live Sale

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