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An Egyptian Basalt Head of a King, 13th/17th Dynasty, 1759-1540 B.C.
Estimate
6,000 - 9,000 GBP
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Description
- An Egyptian Basalt Head of a King
- BASALT
- Height 15 cm.
wearing a short rounded head-cloth with fragmentary uraeus, his face with prominent cheekbones and large wide-set eyes.
Provenance
the Norwegian painter and art collector Henrik Sørensen (1878-1962), acquired in Paris, London or Cairo in the 1950s
the Norwegian physicist Sven Oluf Sørensen (1920-2017)
by descent to the current owner
the Norwegian physicist Sven Oluf Sørensen (1920-2017)
by descent to the current owner
Catalogue Note
Cf. Aegyptisches Museum Berlin, Berlin, 1967, no. 948 (dated tentatively to the 25th Dynasty)