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LOT 1481
Large Egyptian Style Stone Figure
20TH CENTURY A.D.
22 in. (62.5 kg, 63 cm).
A substantial decorative figurine of a seated male wearing a nemes headcloth and shendyt knee-length kilt; the figure sitting cross-legged with hand resting on a rectangular panel, possibly a papyrus sheet; low rectangular base; 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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