Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art

Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art

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Property from a California Private Collection

An Egyptian Green Schist Figure of Isis and Horus, Late Period, 716-30 B.C.

VAT reduced rate

Auction Closed

December 3, 04:39 PM GMT

Estimate

14,000 - 18,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

the goddess seated and holding her son Horus in her lap, and wearing a long close-fitting dress, striated tripartite wig with uraeus, and diadem of uraei surmounted by horns and sun-disk, her son wearing a braided side-lock and close-fitting cap.


Height 19.3 cm.

Tigrane Pasha (d. 1904), Cairo and Evian-les-Bains

Dina (1928-2021) and Raphael (1924-1999) Recanati, New York, acquired by circa 1974

private collection, by descent from the above (Christie's, New York, January 26th, 2023, no. 19, illus.)

acquired by the present owner after the above sale


Published

Daninos Pacha, Collection d'antiquités égyptiennes de Tigrane Pacha d'Abro, Paris, 1911, p. 4, no. 8, pl. VIII (https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6455586b/f47.item)