Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art Part I
Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art Part I
Property from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery
An Egyptian Limestone Relief Fragment, 18th Dynasty, reign of King Ay/Horemehab, 1323-1292 B.C.
Auction Closed
December 7, 04:32 PM GMT
Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery
An Egyptian Limestone Relief Fragment
18th Dynasty, reign of King Ay/Horemehab, 1323-1292 B.C.
finely carved in shallow relief with the head of a man facing left, and wearing a garment with full pleated sleeves, shoulder-length wig of twisted spiral curls, and the three-stranded gold Collar of Honor, his face with full outlined lips and finely-delineated eye with pronounced upper lid, the inscription at left carved in in sunk relief and giving the man’s name as “ ---N-Kyper" and the designation “…true of voice”, part of a large floral bouquet at right indicating that his wife was by his side.
32.1 by 36.9 cm.
Alphonse Kann (1970-1948), Saint-Germain-en-Laye (American Art Association, New York, The Alphonse Kann Collection, Part I, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Persian, Moyen Age and Renaissance Works of Art, January 6th-7th, 1927, no. 30, illus.)
acquired at the above sale
Published
The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, An Exhibition of Paintings and Sculptures added to the Permanent Collections of the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy through the Generosity of the late Colonel Charles Clifton, Buffalo, 1928, no. 9, illus. p.12
“Buffalo Courier Express”, March, 1929, picture section
Academy Notes, September 1931, p. 46, illus. p. 26
Andrew C. Ritchie ed., Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Catalogue of the Paintings and Sculpture in the Permanent Collection, Buffalo, 1949, p. 212, no. 225
Steven A. Nash, with Katy Kline, Charlote Kotik and Emese Wood, Albright-Knox Art Gallery. Painting and Sculpture from Antiquity to 1942, New York, 1979, p. 71, illus.
The elegant yet restrained style of this relief is characteristic of the art of the end of the 18th dynasty. A relief of King Horemhab invested with Collars of Honor, from his tomb at Sakkara, is in the Rikjsmuseum, Leiden.