Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art Part I
Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art Part I
Property of a Gentleman
An Egyptian Limestone Relief, 19th Dynasty, 1305-1196 B.C.
Auction Closed
December 6, 03:36 PM GMT
Estimate
125,000 - 175,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property of a Gentleman
An Egyptian Limestone Relief
19th Dynasty, 1305-1196 B.C.
carved in sunk relief with a couple striding right on a ground line, the man wearing an elaborate kilt with overfold, shirt with full sleeves, collar and enveloping wig with horizontal grooves, bearing offerings of flowers and a goose, the woman wearing a long diaphanous dress with long sleeves and wig surmounted by a cosmetic cone and papyrus blossom, carrying a sistrum and an unidentified offering.
63.2 x 46.3 cm.
Van Doren Gallery, San Francisco, acquired at the above sale
Charles Pankow, San Francisco (Sotheby's New York, The Charles Pankow Collection of Egyptian Art, December 8th, 2004, no. 79, illus.)
acquired by the present owner at the above sale
For a related example, showing especially the rounded pleats of the man’s overfold, see Lawrence M. Berman, et.al., Catalogue of Egyptian Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 1999, no. 180. The author, op. cit , p. 250, notes that the figures in the Cleveland relief “are dressed in the elaborately layered, pleated, billowing garments that were so much in vogue during the Ramesside Period.”