Lot 74
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AN EGYPTIAN GESSO-PAINTED AND GILT WOOD MOURNING ISIS
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AN EGYPTIAN GESSO-PAINTED AND GILT WOOD MOURNING ISIS

PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 332-30 B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN GESSO-PAINTED AND GILT WOOD MOURNING ISIS
PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 332-30 B.C.
The kneeling figure with legs folded under, left arm resting on her lap, right arm raised, wearing tripartite wig, beaded collar and red sheath dress, with gilding on her face and neck, black painted eyebrows, extended eyelines and pupils, on rectangular base
17¾ in. (45 cm.) high
Provenance
Felix Bienaimé Feuardent (1819-1907) collection, Paris; thence by descent.
Collection X; Boisgirard & Associés, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 7-8 October 2004, lot 153.
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Lot Essay

Statues of Isis and Nephthys mourning their brother Osiris were often found in tombs of the late 1st Millennium B.C. to emphasise the deceased's connection with the god. They were usually depicted in traditional gestures of lamentation for the dead with hands raised to their heads.
For similar figures in Acacia wood, cf. ac. no. EA60901 in The British Museum, London.

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