A RED GRANITE HEAD OF A MAN , 30TH DYNASTY, 380-342 B.C.

Estimate

100,000 - 150,000 USD

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Description

A RED GRANITE HEAD OF A MAN
Height 7 1/2 in.; 19 cm

with high domed forehead, his idealized youthful face with round chin, smiling mouth, broad straight nose, and large almond-shaped eyes with upper rims in relief and thin slightly curved eyebrows, the back pillar fragmentary.

Provenance

Arthur B. Michael, Newton Centre, Massachusetts, bequeathed to the museum in 1942

Literature

Bernard V. Bothmer, Egyptian Sculpture of the Late Period, 700 B.C. to A.D. 100, catalogue of the exhibition, Brooklyn, 1960, p. 107, No. 85, pl. 81, Figs. 210-211
Steven A. Nash, with Katy Kline, Charlotta Kotik and Emese Wood, Albright-Knox Art Gallery. Painting and Sculpture from Antiquity to 1942, New York, 1979, p. 72 (illustrated)
Jaromir Malek, Diana Magee, and Elizabeth Miles, Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Statues, Reliefs and Paintings, Vol. VIII: Objects of Provenance not Known, Part 2. Private Statues (Dynasty XVIII to the Roman Period). Statues of Deities, Oxford, 1999, p. 887, No. 801-765-190

Catalogue Note

Bernard Bothmer (op. cit., p. 107) mentions three related examples: one in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, inv. No. 51-19-5 (Ancient Art in the Virginia Museum, Richmond, 1973, pp. 52-53, No. 60), one in the State Museums, Berlin, inv. No. 7737, and one in the Louvre, Paris, inv. No. E. 17379.