EGYPTIAN BRONZE FIGURE OF OSIRIS, 3RD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD/25TH DYNASTY, 1075-656 B.C. | Egyptian Bronze Figure of Osiris

Estimate

5,000 - 8,000 GBP

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Description

BRONZE
Height from modern base 21.3 cm

standing with his hands emerging from his cloak and holding the crook and flail, his long beard with curled tip, the atef-crown with uraeus and two lateral plumes, eyebrows and beard-straps formerly inlaid, and silver inlaid eyes, mounted on an early 20th century Egyptian wood base.

Provenance

Martin Boddewijn, Belgian private collection, acquired in Egypt in 1920/1925
by descent to the current owner