Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art

Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art

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An Egyptian Bronze Head of a Divinity or Ruler, 21st/22nd Dynasty, 1080-720 B.C.

Lot closes

July 5, 02:19 PM GMT

Estimate

3,000 - 5,000 GBP

Starting Bid

3,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

An Egyptian Bronze Head of a Divinity or Ruler

21st/22nd Dynasty, 1080-720 B.C.


wearing the crown of Lower Egypt, a tenon above the forehead for the fragmentary head of the uraeus, his broad face with large eyes, eyebrows, cosmetic lines and beardstraps formerly inlaid, the remains of a tenon under the chin for the missing beard.

Height 7.6 cm.

Sotheby's, New York, June 8th, 1984, no. 217, illus.

private collection, New York

acquired by the present owner from the above