Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art
Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art
Property from a California Private Collection
An Egyptian Encaustic on Wood Mummy Portrait of a Youth, circa late 1st Century A.D.
Lot Closed
December 17, 02:08 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a California Private Collection
An Egyptian Encaustic on Wood Mummy Portrait of a Youth
circa late 1st Century A.D.
wearing a white tunic with red clavus and white mantle, his dark curly hair with a youthful ringlet beneath the right ear and surmounted by a foliate wreath.
31.4 by 15.2 cm.
The Kevorkian Foundation (Sotheby's & Co., London, Catalogue of Egyptian, Western Asiatic, Greek and Roman Antiquities, Islamic Pottery, Metalwork and Glass, The Property of the Kevorkian Foundation, December 8th, 1970, no. 31, illus.)
Arcade Gallery, London, acquired from the above
Christie’s, New York, December 5th, 1979, no. 264, illus.
private collection, California
Arcade Gallery, London, acquired from the above
Christie’s, New York, December 5th, 1979, no. 264, illus.
private collection, California
PUBLISHED
Klaus Parlasca, Ritratti di mummie (Repertorio d’arte dell’Egitto Greco-romano, serie B – volume II), Rome, 1977, pl. 62, fig. 1, no. 252
Barbara Borg, Mumienporträts : Chronologie und kultureller Kontext, Mainz, 1996, p. 114f