Lot 4
4
AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE RELIEF
AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE RELIEF
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AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE RELIEF

NEW KINGDOM, 18TH DYNASTY, AMARNA PERIOD, CIRCA 1351-1334 B.C.

Details
AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE RELIEF
NEW KINGDOM, 18TH DYNASTY, AMARNA PERIOD, CIRCA 1351-1334 B.C.
11 in. (27.9 cm.) wide
Provenance
Gustave Jéquier (1868-1946), Neuchâtel, thence by descent.
Antiquities, Christie's, New York, 4 June 2008, lot 8.

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Lot Essay

The panel is sculpted in sunk relief with a scene of court ladies at ceremony, each wearing a Nubian wig bound in a broad diadem tied at the back. Their hands are raised above their heads. For a related relief in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, showing court ladies, see acc. no. 1985.328.14.

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