FOUR EGYPTIAN TURQUOISE AND CREAM GLAZED COMPOSITION 'SONS OF HORUS'

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FOUR EGYPTIAN TURQUOISE AND CREAM GLAZED COMPOSITION 'SONS OF HORUS'

LATE NEW KINGDOM, CIRCA 1000 B.C.

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FOUR EGYPTIAN TURQUOISE AND CREAM GLAZED COMPOSITION 'SONS OF HORUS'
LATE NEW KINGDOM, CIRCA 1000 B.C.
Comprising each of the Four Sons, Imsety (human-headed), Hapy (baboon-headed), Duamutef (jackal-headed), and Qebehsenuef (falcon-headed), each wearing a tripartite wig, broad collar and 'floral ribbons' hanging down, the details in dark brown glaze, each standing on a small mat, with cut-away attachment loop on reverse at head and feet, one repaired
5¾ in. (14.5 cm.) high av. (4)

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Lot Essay

These four figures would have been sewn onto the mummy bandages to protect the internal organs which would have been embalmed separately during mummification. Cf. F. D. Friedman (ed.), Gifts of the Nile, Ancient Egyptian Faience, Museum of Art, Rhode Island, 1998, p. 155, no. 157, and pp. 246-247 for similar; and S. Spurr et al, Egyptian Art at Eton College: Selections from the Myers Museum, New York and Windsor, 1999, pp. 42-43, no. 63, where similar Sons of Horus are described as coming from Tuna el Gebel.

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