AN EGYPTIAN MOTTLED BROWN STONE HEAD OF HARPOCRATES
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AN EGYPTIAN MOTTLED BROWN STONE HEAD OF HARPOCRATES

LATE PERIOD, 6TH-4TH CENTURY B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN MOTTLED BROWN STONE HEAD OF HARPOCRATES
LATE PERIOD, 6TH-4TH CENTURY B.C.
Wearing plaited side-lock of youth, with central uraeus; a Ptolemaic green glazed composition head of Harpocrates, with side-lock and traces of forefinger on lips, circa 3rd Century B.C.; and an Egypto-Persian green glazed composition male head of a foreigner, wearing blue fillet around the head, with furrowed brow and large exaggerated ears, 5th-4th Century B.C., all mounted
1 3/8 in. (3.6 cm.) high max. (3)
Provenance
Items one-two: acquired in the 1970s.
Item three: acquired on the Paris market, June 1980.
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