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Two Egyptian Bronze Figures of Isis, 25th/26th Dynasty, 750-525 B.C.
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Description
- Two Egyptian Bronze Figures of Isis
- bronze
- Height of first 19.2 cm.; height of second 11.2 cm.
comprising a figure of Isis seated with the child Horus in her lap and wearing a fragmentary crown composed of horns and sun-disk, the feet restored, and a figure standing with her arms held to the sides, remains of copper inlays on her striated wig, the separately-cast headdress now missing.
Provenance
Gillian Anne Fortini, née Edmonds (1928-2014), Asunción, Lugano, and Paris, acquired prior to 1976
by descent to the present owner
by descent to the present owner