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LOT 0028
Egyptian Bronze Figure of Harpocrates
LATE PERIOD, 664-332 B.C.
7 1/4 in. (584 grams, 18.5 cm).
Seated nude statuette of Harpocrates, with legs together and left arm by his side, right arm bent across the chest with forefinger raised to his lips, wearing a nemes headdress with uraeus on the front and a bold sidelock on the right side, surmounted by an elaborate hem-hem crown consisting of three conical atef crowns each topped with a sun disc, with an ostrich plume to the side of the outermost, and flanked by two uraei with sun discs, all supported on two horizontal ram's horns; semi-naturalistic anatomical detailing; feet resting on an integral square plinth, mounted on a wooden stand.
ProvenanceEx pre-war collection, Switzerland.
Private collection, Europe.
Accompanied by a copy of an Art Loss Register certificate no.S00075707.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate number no.12371-226682.
Cf. Roeder, G., Ägyptische Bronzefiguren II, Berlin, 1956, pl. 21c-d, for a similar example.
FootnotesHarpocrates is the Greek rendering of the Egyptian Hor-pa-khered, which translates as 'Horus the Child'. This refers to Horus as the divine infant of Isis and Osiris. Statuettes of Harpocrates could provide the dedicator with the same protection that Isis gave her beloved son.
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Egyptian Cylinder Seal with Hieroglyphs
Late Period, 664-332 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £390
Steatite cylinder producing a decorative top and bottom border enclosing a scene depicting a nefer sign flanked by two falcons surmounting the hieroglyph for gold, nub, and another scene to the side depicting a scarab beetle with a double plumed sun disc above; with a suspension hole running through the cylinder's centre. 4.65 grams, 25 mm
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
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Egyptian Bronze Figure of Harpocrates
Late Period, 664-332 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £3,250
Seated nude statuette of Harpocrates, with legs together and left arm by his side, right arm bent across the chest with forefinger raised to his lips, wearing a nemes headdress with uraeus on the front and a bold sidelock on the right side, surmounted by an elaborate hem-hem crown consisting of three conical atef crowns each topped with a sun disc, with an ostrich plume to the side of the outermost, and flanked by two uraei with sun discs, all supported on two horizontal ram's horns; semi-naturalistic anatomical detailing; feet resting on an integral square plinth, mounted on a wooden stand. 584 grams, 18.5 cm
Ex pre-war collection, Switzerland. Private collection, Europe. Accompanied by a copy of an Art Loss Register certificate no.S00075707. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate number no.12371-226682.
Harpocrates is the Greek rendering of the Egyptian Hor-pa-khered, which translates as 'Horus the Child'. This refers to Horus as the divine infant of Isis and Osiris. Statuettes of Harpocrates could provide the dedicator with the same protection that Isis gave her beloved son. -
Egyptian Glass Phial Group
1st millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Each is a tapering bulb shape with a flat-cut mouth. 13.8 grams total, 35-37 mm
From the collection of Mr S.M., London, UK, formed from 1979-1999.
