This is the rating and price for Rare Egyptian Faience Fertility Figure Of Nude Female

Description : Bid with Confidence - Trust the Artemis Advantage: - 25+ years’ experience selling ancient and ethnographic art - Ancient items have been legally acquired, and are legal to sell - Accurate descriptions, accurate images, no hidden reserves - Artemis has its own Testing Lab on-site to ensure authenticity. Ancient Egypt, Late Dynastic to Ptolemaic Period, ca. 664 to 30 BCE. An exceedingly rare faience figure of a nude woman with arms draped gently at her sides and delineated thighs tracing up to her black-painted pubis. The figure is covered in smooth turquoise pigment as well as lighter blue pigment that form bangles on her biceps as well as a wesekh collar atop her clavicle. She faces ever forward, her gaze affixed in the distance while plump lips and full cheeks compose her feminine visage. A thick wig rests low on her forehead with large lateral tufts of hair as well as a sidelock reminiscent of the child Horus, suggesting this may be a youthful effigy. Though historically considered as a concubine, other excavated examples are believed to be maternity figures, perhaps an assistant to a queen during birth similar to what is mentioned in the Westcar Papyrus. Size: 0.83 L x 1.34 W x 4.09 H (2.1 cm x 3.4 cm x 10.4 cm) Cf. another example at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession number 08.200.18 Provenance: Collection of Dr. W. Benson Harer, Los Angeles, California, USA, purchased in September 2014, ex-Arte Primitivo auction, New York (September 2014, lot 400), ex-private Connecticut, USA collection, ex-private collection, Ruhr Valley, Germany, ex-Gawain McKinley collection, London, UK, acquired prior to 1980 All items legal to buy/sell under U.S. Statute covering cultural patrimony Code 2600, CHAPTER 14, and are guaranteed to be as described or your money back. A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany all winning bids. We ship worldwide and handle all shipping in-house for your convenience. IMPORTANT EXCEPTION We are currently unable to ship to Australia, Germany or Switzerland due to customs regulations. #180908
Price: 0.00 USD It's free to register now to view!
Estimate (low-high) : 10000 USD-15000 USD It's free to register now to view!

Details