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LOT 0006
Egyptian Limestone Male Head Fragment
OLD KINGDOM, 4TH-EARLY 5TH DYNASTY, CIRCA 2640-2480 B.C.
10 1/2 in. (4.58 kg total, 26.5 cm including stand).
Wearing a short wig, the eyes with incised cosmetic lines; mounted on a custom-made display stand.
Provenancewith Sotheby's, London, 5 July 1982, no.190.
with Sotheby's, London, 13-14 December 1990, no.18.
Acquired from the above sale by the late Robert Browne.
Property of Ms L.F., London, UK.
Accompanied by a copy of an Art Loss Register certificate no.S00243674.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate number no.12073-217362.
Cf. Ziegler, C., Les statues égyptiennes de l’Ancien Empire, Paris, 1997, p. 231, no. 71, for similar head.
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