THE BEAUTY WITHIN: The Chenel Collection

THE BEAUTY WITHIN: The Chenel Collection

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An Egyptian Figure of a Sphinx, Ptolemaic Period, 305-30 B.C.

Lot Closed

December 17, 03:44 PM GMT

Estimate

35,000 - 38,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

An Egyptian Figure of a Sphinx

Ptolemaic Period, 305-30 B.C.


couchant on a rectangular base, the tail curved around the right hindquarter, the ribbed queue of the wig falling over the upper back.

Length 48 cm.

Annie Trotter/Ian Parsons (d. 1990)
Katharine House Gallery, The Parade, Marlborough, Wiltshire, acquired from the above in the late 1980s/early 1990s
Sotheby's, London, July 8th, 1991, no. 154, illus.
Sotheby's, London, July 8th, 1993, no. 194, illus.
private collection Rome, acquired prior to 2005