Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art
Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art
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
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