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LOT 1547
Large Egyptian Revival Painted Stone Plaque
20TH CENTURY A.D.
21 1/2 in. (34 kg total, 54 cm).
A substantial decorative designer frieze panel with high-relief figure of Osiris seated in profile wearing the atef crown, segmentee collar and short cape, pleated kilt; in his hands the symbolic crook and flail; seated on a rectangular throne with banded detailing; hieroglyphs in the field; after the antique. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From a French collection, Paris.
Ex Parisian gallery, France; latterly with a London, UK, gallery.
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