Property from a Belgian Private Collection
AN EGYPTIAN GRANITE HEAD OF A MAN, LATE PERIOD, EARLY 26TH DYNASTY, CIRCA 664-600 B.C
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July 9, 01:55 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Belgian Private Collection
AN EGYPTIAN GRANITE HEAD OF A MAN, LATE PERIOD, EARLY 26TH DYNASTY, CIRCA 664-600 B.C
from a block statue, wearing a wide double wig, his face with full lips and large wide-set eyes with eyebrows and cosmetic lines in relief.
Height 8.5 cm.
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Galerie Khepri, Cairo
Patrick Courtinat, Paris, acquired from the above in 1970
For a closely related head of the early 26th Dynasty, also from a block statue and wearing the double wig, compare Bernard v. Bothmer, Egyptian Sculpture of the Late Period, pl. 32, no. 34.