An Egyptian Bronze Figure of Isis with Horus, 26th Dynasty, 664-525 B.C.

the goddess seated on a throne and holding her child Horus on her lap, her feet resting on a footstool, and wearing a long close-fitting dress, broad beaded collar, echeloned tripartite wig, vulture headdress, and diadem of uraei crowned by horns and sun-disk, her child Horus wearing the juvenile side-lock and close fitting cap with uraeus, the throne decorated in part with a basket-weave design, the rectangular plinth engraved on the four sides with a hieroglyphic inscription asking for “Life, Prosperity and Health for the Ka of the Prophet Wennefer-pa-di-Bastet son of Iry-Pat, Hatyaa, Horsiese, his mother Pa-di-Neith”.

European art market, late 1960s/early 1970s
Sotheby’s, London, December 8th-9th, 1986, no. 145, cover illus.  

Very good. The patina is a lot less red than it appears in the catalogue. Small chips on the lower edge of the base, minor nicks and abrasions elsewhere, some surface wear. The crown was probably cast separately and inserted, and it is slightly loose. The head of the uraeus on the child's cap is missing. The surface seems to have been waxed at some point.
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