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Grand Tour Egyptian Bronze Figure of the God Min Grand Tour Egyptian Bronze Figure of the God Min Grand Tour Egyptian Bronze Figure of the God Min
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LOT 1822

Grand Tour Egyptian Bronze Figure of the God Min

19TH CENTURY A.D.

8 7/8 in. (532 grams total, 22.5 cm high including stand).

Modelled in the round as a votive ithyphallic figure wearing a double-plumed crown with median sun disc; holding a flail in his outstretched right hand and his erect phallus in the left; mounted on a custom-made display base. [No Reserve]

Provenance

Acquired from a Manhattan gallery, USA, 1970s.
Ex private New York city collection.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.

Literature

Cf. The Royal Ontario Museum for a similar figure (inv. no. 910.17.14); cf. Daressy, G., Catalogue général des antiquités égyptiennes du Musée du Caire N° 38001-39384 Statues de divinités, Cairo, 1906, pl. XXVII, no.38479, for a similar example.

CONDITION
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LOT 1822

Grand Tour Egyptian Bronze Figure of the God Min

Sold for (Inc. bp): £72

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