An Egyptian Bronze Figure of Isis with Horus, 25th/26th Dynasty, 750-525 B.C.

seated and holding her child Horus in her lap, and wearing a long close-fitting dress, beaded collar, finely striated tripartite wig with uraeus, vulture headdress, diadem of uraei, and horns and sun-disk (the latter with restoration), her broad face with smiling mouth and large wide-set eyes.

Albert Eid (1866-1950), Cairo
his wife Simone van Lierde Eid
Salle de Ventes Rops, Namur, Belgium, August 28th, 2011

The headdress above the diadem is restored, and it is difficult to determine exactly to what extent. There is an area of bronze disease on the back of the sun-disk. The toes of the proper right foot of the child are worn back, and fingers of the proper left hand as well. There is a small abraded area on the proper right side of the wig behind and above the ear. Otherwise the figure is in very good condition and the engraved detail is very crisp.
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“No. 232” and “£BK” are written in ink in an old hand under the wood base.