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LOT 0014
Large Egyptian Wooden Statue of a Noble
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.
ProvenanceAcquired 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.
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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