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n° 3
Titre : Egyptian Wooden Furniture Leg, PÉRIODE : 1550
Medium : Carved in the form of the forequarters of a lion, the head with sunken eyes, a broad flat nose, incised whiskers and rounded ears, with the curving locks of the mane beneath the jaw, the flattened front with two legs below, the forepaws with long arching claws, a stepped rectangular fitting below and a hollow rectangular fitting behind the head, Dimensions : 13½in (34.5cm) highNotes : Provenance:Collection of Dr John Winnie, St. Mary's Georgia, USA. Formerly the Property of The Toledo Museum of Art. Previously Blanchard Antiquities, Cairo, 1906.Published:Sotheby's, Antiquities and Islamic Art, New York, June 12, 1993, lot 88Literature:For an almost identical example, compare to an excavated pair in the Turin Museum, also dated as New Kingdom.Bonhams 3, Salle de vente
, London, UK
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Titre de la vente : Antiquities
Date de la vente : 01/05/2008
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