Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art
Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art
Property from an American Private Collection
Three Egyptian Alabaster Canopic Jars, 26th Dynasty, 664-525 B.C.
Auction Closed
December 5, 03:41 PM GMT
Estimate
250,000 - 350,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
each inscribed in two columns for Ptah-Iridis, daughter of Ankh-Khonsu, daughter of Tasherit-en-Sekhmet, one lid in the form of human-head Imsety, guardian of the liver, wearing a wide wig passing behind the large ears, his face with broad nose and black-painted eye rims, irises, and cosmetic lines in relief, another lid in the form of falcon-headed Qebusenuf, guardian of the intestines, his eyes painted in black, and another lid in the form of baboon-headed Hapy, with incised mouth, drilled nostrils, and enveloping cape of fur.
Heights 31.7, 35.6, and 33 cm.
Omar Pasha Sultan (1881-1917), Cairo
Robert Taylor, New York, for the first two
Peter Sharrer New York, for the first two
Charles Pankow (1923-2004), San Francisco, acquired from the above in 1984, for the first two
Sotheby’s, New York, The Charles Pankow Collection of Egyptian Art, December 8th, 2004, no. 106, illus., for the first two
Sotheby’s, New York, June 6th, 2006, no. 83, illus., for the first two
Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, May 24th, 1969, no. 33, illus., for the third
Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, February 17th, 1978, no. 198, illus., for the third
Cutler Collection, Scottsdale, Arizona (Sotheby’s, New York, June 8th, 1994, no. 53, illus.), for the third
Sotheby’s, New York, December 7th, 2005, no. 8, illus., for the third
princely collection, for all three
acquired from the above by the present owner
The present three jars are hereby being offered together for the first time at public auction. The fourth jar, that of jackal-headed Duamutef, is untraced.
On the subject of Omar Pasha Sultan, his collection, and his house in Cairo see M. Volait, “L’ingénieur, le réformateur et le collectionneur: trois figures égyptiennes de l’orientalisme architectural au Caire au tournant du XXe siècle,” in S. Basch, ed., L’Orientalisme, les Orientalistes et l’Empire ottoman de la fin du XVIIIe siècle à la fin du XXe siècle, Paris, 2011, pp. 275-291.
Published
Collection de feu Omar Pacha Sultan, Le Caire. Catalogue descriptif, vol. I: Art égyptien, Paris, 1929, no. 406, illus. (showing the complete set of four, with some lids switched)
Nelly Vaucher-Zananiri, "Les grandes collections égyptiennes," L'art vivant, January 15th, 1929, p. 95 ("une série de quatre vases canopes on albâtre")
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