Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art
Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art
Property from a New York Private Collection
AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE FIGURE OF HARPOCRATES, 30TH DYNASTY/ PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, 380-30 B.C.
Auction Closed
July 2, 04:42 PM GMT
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 GBP
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Property from a New York Private Collection
AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE FIGURE OF HARPOCRATES, 30TH DYNASTY/ PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, 380-30 B.C.
the god Horus as an infant seated on an ornate throne with his feet resting on a trapezoidal foot-stool and holding his right forefinger to his mouth, and wearing the cap of the god Amun surmounted by the sun-disk and ostrich plumes, a tenon on the right for attachment of the missing side-lock, his face with eyes and eyebrows inlaid with black bronze(?), the separately-cast throne surmounted by a frieze of uraei on three sides , engraved winged sun-disks below, and below these a large lotus flower in back, and a scale pattern with papyrus stalks springing from a nefer sign on each side, the base carefully engraved with remains of an inscriptions.
Height 27.3 cm.
Kojiro Ishiguro (1916-1992), Tokyo, prior to 1966
Sakae Art Gallery, Japan, prior to 1981
Christie’s, London, July 5th, 2017, no. 158, illus.
The name of the god represented, no longer visible, was on the front of the base. The inscription continues on the left side of the base ”...may he give life, health and a good age”. The donors name, badly damaged, ends in “-nefer”, and the inscription continues with his second name , “Nefertum, son of Psamtik his mother Irerru” and “ …may Hathor give life to Padi-ih his mother Irerru”.