Lot 123
  • 123

A Quartzite Relief Fragment, 26th/30th Dynasty, 664-342 B.C.

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
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Description

  • A Quartzite Relief Fragment
  • Height 5 3/8 in. 13.8 cm.
carved in sunk relief with a mummiform figure of the Son of Horus Imsety, facing left and wearing a broad collar, beard, and tripartite wig; the stand, bearing his stamp, by Inagaki.

Provenance

Swiss private collection, acquired from Heidi Vollmoeller in Zurich in the 1960s

Catalogue Note

The master Japanese basemaker Inagaki was active in Paris between WWI and WWII. For a recollection of him by Charles Ratton see Christie's, London, African Art from the Collection of the late Josef Müller of Solothurn, Switzerland, June 13th, 1978, p. 8.