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Sold for (Inc. bp): £6,240
SECOND INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, C.1600 BC
9 3/4" (539 grams, 24.5cm high).
A carved wooden statue modelled in the round as a nobleman striding forwards wearing a shin-length kilt, moveable arms with hands held in fists, creating sockets, finely carved naturalistic detailing to the face, ears and hands, rectangular sockets to the base of the feet.
PROVENANCE:
Acquired in the 1960s.
Private collection of Egyptologist Surgeon Commander PHK Gray RN.
With a Home Counties gentleman.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by AIAD certificate number no.11076-184870.
LITERATURE:
Cf. D'Auria, S., Lacovara, P. and Roherig, C.H., Mummies and Magic: the Funerary Arts of Ancient Egypt, Boston, 1988, p.115, fig.70, for a comparable figure.
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