BC/AD Sculpture Ancient to Modern

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Property from a Belgian Private Collection

AN EGYPTIAN RED GRANITE HEAD OF A URAEUS SERPENT, NEW KINGDOM, PROBABLY 19TH DYNASTY, 1292-1190 B.C.

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July 9, 01:56 PM GMT

Estimate

3,000 - 5,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Belgian Private Collection

AN EGYPTIAN RED GRANITE HEAD OF A URAEUS SERPENT, NEW KINGDOM, PROBABLY 19TH DYNASTY, 1292-1190 B.C.


boldly carved, with protuberant eye.


Length 12 cm.; height 8.5 cm.


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French private collection, before 1970

Philippe Dodier, Normandie

Galerie Laurent Dodier, Avranches, France

acquired from the above by the present owner

The scale of this red granite head of a snake suggest that it possibly comes from a uraeus that topped a colossal crown of a king, such as the red granite monumental head of Amenhotep III at the British Museum (https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA15).