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LOT 0021
Egyptian Alabaster Trussed Duck
OLD KINGDOM, 6TH DYNASTY, CIRCA 2345-2181 B.C.
4 3/4 in. (354 grams, 12.2 cm (893 grams total including stand)).
Carved dressed and ready for consumption, with a plump, stylised form, head and neck resting along the animal's breast, simple linear incising delineating two folded wings to either side, circular recesses for eyes; mounted on a custom-made display stand; cleaned.
ProvenanceAcquired before 1970.
Private French collection.
with Bonhams, New Bond Street, London, 29 April 2009, lot 58.
Ex Middle Eastern royal family, living in the UK, 2013-2017.
Accompanied by a copy of a French cultural passport no.099505.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate number no.11841-206397.
Cf. The Brooklyn Museum, accession number 11.666, for similar; and Basel Museum, Switzerland; for examples of model offerings cf. D'Auria S., Mummies and Magic - The Funerary Arts of Ancient Egypt, Boston, 1988, p.93, fig.25.
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LOT 0021
Egyptian Alabaster Trussed Duck
Estimate £10,000 - 14,000€11,600 - 16,240 (for guidance only)$13,500 - 18,900 (for guidance only)
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