Property from a European Private Collection
AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE FIGURE OF SEKHMET, 21ST/26TH DYNASTY, 1075-525 B.C.
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July 2, 04:42 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Property from a European Private Collection
AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE FIGURE OF SEKHMET, 21ST/26TH DYNASTY, 1075-525 B.C.
the lion-headed goddess standing on a trapezoidal base with her hands held to her sides, and wearing a long close-fitting dress, broad collar, and striated tripartite wig surmounted by the sun-disk with uraeus.
Height without tenon 11.2 cm.
Charles Bouché (1928-2010), probably acquired in the 1960s/1970s
Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Thierry de Maigret, November 15th, 2013, no. 185, illus.
For related examples cf. George Steindorff, Catalogue of the Egyptian Sculpture in the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, 1946, nos. 501 and 503; also compare Jacques F. Aubert and Liliane Aubert, Bronzes et or égyptiens, Paris, 2001, pl. 39, and Sylvia Schoske and Dietrich Wildung, Gott und Götter im Alten Ägypten, Mainz, 1993, p. 61.