Egyptian Revival Terracotta Head

20TH CENTURY A.D.

9 7/8 in. (1.19 kg total, 25 cm high including stand).

A hollow-formed decorative bust of a princess, based on portrait head of one of the daughters of Akhenaten and Nefertiti from Tell el-Amarna and now in Neues Museum, Berlin; mounted on a wooden base with inset authentication seal verso and inscribed number '544'; after the antique. [No Reserve]

Provenance

From a French collection, Paris.
Ex Parisian gallery, France; latterly with a London, UK, gallery.

CONDITION

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LOT 1479