Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art

Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art

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Property from a Swiss Private Collection

An Egyptian Bronze Figure of Osiris, Third Intermediate Period, 21st/ 22nd Dynasty, 1075-716 B.C.

Lot Closed

December 17, 02:05 PM GMT

Estimate

1,500 - 2,500 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Swiss Private Collection

An Egyptian Bronze Figure of Osiris


Third Intermediate Period, 21st/ 22nd Dynasty, 1075-716 B.C.

standing with his hands emerging from his cloak, holding the crook and flail, and wearing a broad beaded collar with tassels , and the atef-crown with uraeus, the missing plumes formerly inserted, his face with full outlined lips and eyes and eyebrows formerly inlaid. 

Height 20 cm.

Carl Leonhard Burckhardt (b. 1902, Basel, d. 1965, Alexandria)
thence by descent