Lot 104
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AN EGYPTIAN MODELLED STUCCO FOOTCASE FROM A ROYAL MUMMY
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VA… Read more THE PROPERTY OF MONSIEUR FRANÇOIS ANTONOVICH Refer to Lot 32 for bibliography.
AN EGYPTIAN MODELLED STUCCO FOOTCASE FROM A ROYAL MUMMY

GRAECO-ROMAN PERIOD, CIRCA 1ST CENTURY B.C./2ND CENTURY A.D.

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AN EGYPTIAN MODELLED STUCCO FOOTCASE FROM A ROYAL MUMMY
GRAECO-ROMAN PERIOD, CIRCA 1ST CENTURY B.C./2ND CENTURY A.D.
Polychrome and gilded, the upperside with moulded and gilded feet, chequerboard pattern all around, the sides with rosettes and wedjat-eye within geometric border, and the underside depicting two bound foreign prisoners within the outlines of feet, surrounded by geometric border
11 x 97/8 in. (28 x 25 cm.)
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Sale room notice
This footcase probably belongs to a commoner rather than a royal personage.

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED: Métamorphoses, pp. 189 and 383-4.

Cf. exhibition catalogue, Romans and Barbarians, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1976, no. 27, for a foot case with very similar bound prisoners within border.

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