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LOT 0018

Egyptian Granite Head of a Dignitary

NEW KINGDOM, 1552-1069 B.C.

7 7/8 in. (4.23 kg total, 20 cm including stand).

Carved with soft facial features and carefully executed cosmetic lines around the eye, earring, and carefully detailed duplex wig with gently wavy curls; likely from the Ramesside Period; mounted on a custom-made stand.

Provenance

Private collection, France.
with Christie’s, New York, 18 December 1996, no.60.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.

Accompanied by an academic report by Egyptologist Paul Whelan.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate number no.12202-222169.

Literature

Cf. Berman, L.M., The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Egyptian Art, New York, 1999, pp.233-5, no.168, for the statue of a scribe with similar wig and details.

Footnotes

The shape of the eyes, raised upper and lower cosmetic lines, brows, and mouth on the TimeLine head present a similar countenance to that of the cube statue of Hori, dated to the reign of Ramesses II, now in the Musée du Louvre (inv. no. Louvre E11275). An even closer parallel can be seen in another non-royal statue of Paaha in the British Museum (inv. no. EA 501).

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LOT 0018

Egyptian Granite Head of a Dignitary

Sold for (Inc. bp): £28,600

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