The One
The One
Property from an American Private Collection
An Egyptian Greywacke Naophorous Bust of an Official, 2nd half of the 26th Dynasty, circa 600-525 B.C.
Auction Closed
January 27, 03:44 PM GMT
Estimate
350,000 - 550,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from an American Private Collection
An Egyptian Greywacke Naophorous Bust of an Official, 2nd half of the 26th Dynasty, circa 600-525 B.C.
administrator of the Royal Palace at Hermopolis Magna, wearing a pleated kilt, broad rounded wig, and a naos-shaped pectoral decorated in raised relief with a seated figure of Neith holding the was-scepter, his youthful idealizing face with outlined lips indented at the corners, and finely contoured eyes, a single column of inscription in sunk relief on the rectangular back pillar translating, "Guest of the gods who are in Khemenu (Hermopolis Magna), Sole friend, Administrator of the Palace, Administrator..."
Height 13 in.
Mathias Komor, New York (1909-1984), inventory no. Q 649, recorded in the Corpus of Late Period Egyptian Sculpture as having been seen by Bernard Bothmer in 1957
Missouri Public Service Co., Raytown, Missouri, acquired from the above in 1959
the architect Theodore H. Seligson, Kansas City, acquired from the above in the mid 1980s (Sotheby’s, New York, December 8th, 2010, no. 66)
acquired by the present owner at the above sale