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PROPERTY FROM A NEW YORK PRIVATE COLLECTION
AN EGYPTIAN FELDSPAR FALCON-HEADED CROCODILE DEITY
PTOLEMAIC TO ROMAN PERIOD, CIRCA 3RD CENTURY B.C.-2ND CENTURY A.D.
Details
AN EGYPTIAN FELDSPAR FALCON-HEADED CROCODILE DEITY
PTOLEMAIC TO ROMAN PERIOD, CIRCA 3RD CENTURY B.C.-2ND CENTURY A.D.
3 5⁄8 in. (9.2 cm.) long
PTOLEMAIC TO ROMAN PERIOD, CIRCA 3RD CENTURY B.C.-2ND CENTURY A.D.
3 5⁄8 in. (9.2 cm.) long
Provenance
with Maurice Nahman (1868-1948), Cairo.
Martine-Marie-Pol de Béhague, Comtesse de Béarn (1870-1939), Paris, acquired from the above, 1926; thence by continuous descent to her grand-nephew, Marquis Jean-Louis Hubert de Ganay (1922-2013), Paris.
Antiquités et Objets d'Art: Collection de Martine, Comtesse de Béhague, provenant de la Succession du Marquis de Ganay, Sotheby's, Monaco, 5 December 1987, lot 96.
Private Collection, France.
Antiquities, Christie's, London, 10 July 1991, lot 49.
with Nicholas Reeves, London.
Private Collection, New York, acquired from the above, 1994.
with Robert Haber & Company, New York.
Acquired by the current owner from the above, 2017.
Martine-Marie-Pol de Béhague, Comtesse de Béarn (1870-1939), Paris, acquired from the above, 1926; thence by continuous descent to her grand-nephew, Marquis Jean-Louis Hubert de Ganay (1922-2013), Paris.
Antiquités et Objets d'Art: Collection de Martine, Comtesse de Béhague, provenant de la Succession du Marquis de Ganay, Sotheby's, Monaco, 5 December 1987, lot 96.
Private Collection, France.
Antiquities, Christie's, London, 10 July 1991, lot 49.
with Nicholas Reeves, London.
Private Collection, New York, acquired from the above, 1994.
with Robert Haber & Company, New York.
Acquired by the current owner from the above, 2017.
Literature
H. Kockelmann, Der Herr der Seen, Sümpfe und Flußläufe: Untersuchungen zum Gott Sobek und den ägyptischen Krokodilgötter-Kulten von den Anfängen bis zur Römerzeit, vol. 1, Wiesbaden, 2017, p. 76, n. 126.
Exhibited
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1994-2016 (Loan no. L.1994.100.1).
Brought to you by
Hannah Solomon
Head of Department, Specialist