AN EGYPTIAN "BLUE" BUST OF BES

LATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXVII, 525-404 B.C.

细节
AN EGYPTIAN "BLUE" BUST OF BES
late period, dynasty xxvii, 525-404 b.c.
The finely detailed bust of the bandy-legged deity with wide-open mouth, flaring nostrils, and exhuberant facial hair, the eyes inlaid in glass, wearing an animal-skin garment, the head surmounted by the plinth of his crown, with a vertical, square-shaped mortise through the entire figure
3.3/8 in. (8.6 cm) high
来源
Collection of the Cardinal of Carpegna
出版
Buonarroti, Osservazioni sopra alcuni medaglioni antichi, 1698, p. 310.

拍品专文

For a similiar Bes, see no. 73-74, p. 209-210 in Friedman, ed., Gifts of the Nile: Ancient Egyptian Faience.