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LOT 2078
Large Egyptian Revival Painted Stone Plaque
20TH CENTURY A.D.
39 1/4 in. (74.05 kg total, 1.01 m high including stand).
A substantial decorative designer stele with high-relief standing figure of Hathor in profile wearing a headdress with solar disc flanked by bovine horns, wesekh segmented collar and tight-fitting ankle-length skirt; in her right hand, the ankh symbol of life, her left hand supporting a papyrus stalk; low-relief cartouche and hieroglyphs 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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