AN EGYPTIAN WOOD FIGURE

LATE PERIOD, CIRCA 664-332 B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN WOOD FIGURE
LATE PERIOD, CIRCA 664-332 B.C.
With realistically modelled body and facial features, the striding figure with the left leg advanced, with straight arms held to the sides with clenched fists, wearing short shendyet-kilt, the feet with tenons slotting into a rectangular base
23¼ in. (59 cm.) high

Provenance

Private collection, England, acquired 1930s; thence by descent.

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Lot Essay

For a similar Late Period wood figure in the Egyptian Museum, Berlin, inv. no. 8813, cf. B. Fay, Egyptian Museum, Berlin, Berlin, 1985, p.116, where it is suggested that the red finish to the wood is meant to imitate stone, either quartize or granite.

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