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LOT 0024

Egyptian Diorite Bust of a Dignitary

LATE PERIOD, 664-332 B.C.

7 7/8 in. (2.03 kg total, 20 cm high including stand).

Wearing a heavy wig over a rounded face with cosmetic lines and eyebrows in raised relief; vertical dorsal pillar with partial hieroglyphs to the reverse; some re-cutting, mounted on a custom-made display stand.

Provenance

Ex Jean-Paul Bourgis collection, Beaulieu-sur-Mer, France, 1980.

This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate no.12128-213629.

Literature

Cf. Bothmer, B. V., Egyptian Sculpture of the Late Period, 700 B.C. to A.D. 100, New York, 1960, pls.45, no.111, and 55, no.136.

CONDITION

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LOT 0024

Egyptian Diorite Bust of a Dignitary

Sold for (Inc. bp): £4,420

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