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A LIMESTONE RELIEF FRAGMENT , LATE PERIOD, PROBABLY 26TH DYNASTY, 664-525 B.C.
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 USD
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Description
- A LIMESTONE RELIEF FRAGMENT
- 15 3/8 by 8 1/2 in. 39 by 21.6 cm.
carved in sunk relief with the figure of the ibis-headed god Thoth, patron of scribes, facing left and wearing a pleated kilt, broad belt, and tripartite wig, his head very finely detailed.
Provenance
Alphonse Kann, Saint-Germain-en-Laye (American Art Association, New York, The Alphonse Kann Collection, Part I: Egyptian, Greek, Persian, Moyen Age and Renaissance Works of Art, January 6th-7th, 1927, no. 24
Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, An Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture added to the Permanent Collections of the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy through the Generosity of the late Colonel Charles Clifton, Buffalo, 1928, p. 6, cat. no. 8, illus. on p. 11
The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Academy Notes, vol. XXII, no. 1, September 1931, pp. 28 and 46, illus.
Blue Book of the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, 1931, pp. 56 and 62
Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, An Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture added to the Permanent Collections of the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy through the Generosity of the late Colonel Charles Clifton, Buffalo, 1928, p. 6, cat. no. 8, illus. on p. 11
The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Academy Notes, vol. XXII, no. 1, September 1931, pp. 28 and 46, illus.
Blue Book of the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, 1931, pp. 56 and 62
Exhibited
on loan to the Museum of Science, Buffalo, New York, 1935
"North Africa," exhibition at the Park Zoo, Buffalo, New York, organized by the Inter-Institutional Council, August 2nd-September 6th, 1943