Large Egyptian Style Bronze Osiris by Morris Singer Foundry

20TH CENTURY A.D.

17 1/8 in. (6.2 kg, 43.5 cm high).

Osiris represented in his most usual form in a closely fitting cloak as a swathed mummy, holding the crook and the flail in his hands, the long beard neatly braided, wearing the Atef crown with incised plumes on either side; standing on a high integral base inscribed in hieroglyphs with a prayer addressed to the god: 'Osiris, who is (in the West), may he give life (to) Amen-en-Nyut, son of Ipa-dy-su, born of the Mistress of the House, Ta-Horbes'. [No Reserve]

Provenance

From the private collection of Peter Clayton, FCILIP, Dip, Arch, FSA, FRNS, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, UK; formed since the late 1950s.

Accompanied by a copy of the sales booklet, which, in Peter's hand, reads: 'Written and illustrated by Peter Clayton'.

Footnotes

The original of this high-quality bronze casting is a black basalt figure of the Egyptian god Osiris, beautifully carved in the 26th Dynasty in the reign of the Pharaoh Psammetichus I (664-610 BC).

CONDITION

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