Lot Essay
Item one: for similar limestone group from Memphis, dated to the Ptolemaic period, cf. Petrie Museum, London, no. UC35954.
CIRCA 4TH-1ST CENTURY B.C.
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AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE EROTIC GROUP
CIRCA 4TH-1ST CENTURY B.C.
Carved with an amorous scene of a nude couple, the woman with legs wrapped around her lover's hips, her right arm around his neck, another naked male figure reclining above, his oversized phallus hanging down behind the woman, remains of red pigment, figures with heads missing, mounted, 5½ in. (14 cm.) high; an Egyptian painted limestone phallic figure reclining on an integral plinth, his left arm resting on two cushions, semi-draped with his right hand holding his oversized phallus which curves in front of his bare torso, remains of red pigment, head missing, Ptolemaic, circa 4th-1st Century B.C., 6¾ in. (17.2 cm.) long; and a carved wood phallic squatting monkey holding his oversized phallus in both paws, mounted, 3 1/8 in. (8 cm.) high (3)
CIRCA 4TH-1ST CENTURY B.C.
Carved with an amorous scene of a nude couple, the woman with legs wrapped around her lover's hips, her right arm around his neck, another naked male figure reclining above, his oversized phallus hanging down behind the woman, remains of red pigment, figures with heads missing, mounted, 5½ in. (14 cm.) high; an Egyptian painted limestone phallic figure reclining on an integral plinth, his left arm resting on two cushions, semi-draped with his right hand holding his oversized phallus which curves in front of his bare torso, remains of red pigment, head missing, Ptolemaic, circa 4th-1st Century B.C., 6¾ in. (17.2 cm.) long; and a carved wood phallic squatting monkey holding his oversized phallus in both paws, mounted, 3 1/8 in. (8 cm.) high (3)
Provenance
Acquired by the present owner's grandfather in Egypt during the 1920s.
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