Lot 15
  • 15

A Pale Blue-green Faience Figure of Pataek, 30th Dynasty/Ptolemaic Period, 380-30 B.C.

Estimate
5,000 - 8,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • A Pale Blue-green Faience Figure of Pataek
  • Height 2 3/16 in. 5.6 cm.
standing with his legs bent at the knees and holding knives to his chest, and wearing a braided sidelock and large scarab on the crown of the head, his benign face with slight smile, broad snub nose, and large eyes with eyebrows in relief, a ribbon(?) held in his mouth, a pendant loop behind.

Provenance

Collection of Natacha Rambova (1897-1966)
Professor Donald P. Hansen (1932-2007), New York

Condition

generally good, legs fragmentary as shown, minor chips and abrasions
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