Egyptian, Classical, and Western Asiatic Antiquities, including Property of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery

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Lot 19
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AN EGYPTIAN COPPER FIGURE OF A MAN , 12TH DYNASTY, 1938-1759 B.C.

Estimate
6,000 - 9,000 USD
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Description

  • AN EGYPTIAN COPPER FIGURE OF A MAN
  • Height 5 in. 12.7 cm.
of highly attenuated form striding with his arms held out from his sides, and wearing a short kilt and short rounded wig.

Provenance

Bequest of Arthur B. Michael, Newton Centre, Massachusetts, 1942

Literature

Steven Nash, ed., Albright-Knox Art Gallery. Painting and Sculpture from Antiquity to 1942, Buffalo, New York, 1979, p. 71, illus.

Catalogue Note

Cf. Sotheby’s, Abemayor Collection, no. 271, Ägyptisches Museum Berlin, no. 322, and Baltimore, Egyptian Sculpture, pl.XVI, no. 99. Also see F.W. von Bissing, “Ägyptische Bronze und Kupfer-Figuren des Mittleren Reichs,” Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Athenische Abteilung, 1913, pp. 239-262, and J.F. and L. Aubert, Bronzes et or égyptiens, Paris, 2001, pp. 65-67.