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LOT 1518
Large Egyptian Revival Painted Stone Plaque
20TH CENTURY A.D.
22 1/2 in. (35.2 kg total, 57 cm high including stand).
A substantial decorative designer stele with figure of the goddess Isis carved in the half-round, standing with a feather held in each of her raised hands, pleated skirt tied at her waist over a tight-fitting undergarment; smaller attendant figure to he rear with feather headdress adjusting the robe, wearing a tripartite wig, wesekh collar, tight-fitting calf-length skirt; hieroglyphic text and cartouche in the field; mounted on a custom-made stand; after the antique. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom a French collection, Paris.
Ex Parisian gallery, France; latterly with a London, UK, gallery.
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