A Wood Furniture Support, probably 19th Dynasty, 1292-1190 B.C.

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 USD

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Description

A Wood Furniture Support
Wood
Height 28 5/8 in. 72.7 cm.

carved in high relief, in the form of a figure of the god Bes standing on a papyriform base and holding his hands to his abdomen, and wearing a garment with long overfold in front; a tenon above remains of pigment over gesso.

Provenance

Estate of Mr. and Mrs. Vilain, Brussels, acquired in the 1970s

Catalogue Note

Cf. J. Yoyotte in L'Égypte romaine, I' autre Égypte, exh. cat., Marseille, 1997, no. 106 (Leiden), and Sotheby's, New York, December 9th, 2004, no. 321.