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LOT 1521
Large Egyptian Revival Painted Stone Plaque
20TH CENTURY A.D.
25 in. (22.8 kg, 65 cm).
A substantial decorative designer tongue-shaped stele with low-relief tiered frieze: upper register: three seated figures, one with a sceptre, facing a standing kilted figure addressing them; middle register: the gods Thoth with jackal-head and Nekhbet with vulture-head weighing souls on scales; lower register: four seated gods with accompanying symbols facing a kneeling robed figure with hands raised; curved top with opposed jackals, Osiris's wedjat eye and scarab with spread wings, hieroglyphs in the field; after the antique. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom a French collection, Paris.
Ex Parisian gallery, France; latterly with a London, UK, gallery.
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