A RARE TURQUOISE GLAZED COMPOSITION STATUETTE OF BEST CARRYING BES
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A RARE TURQUOISE GLAZED COMPOSITION STATUETTE OF BEST CARRYING BES

DYNASTY XXI-XXV, CIRCA 8TH-7TH CENTURY B.C.

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A RARE TURQUOISE GLAZED COMPOSITION STATUETTE OF BEST CARRYING BES
DYNASTY XXI-XXV, CIRCA 8TH-7TH CENTURY B.C.
The female dwarf steatopygous figure of Best carrying the leonine figure of Bes on her shoulders, with grimacing face and stuck-out tongue, the top of his flattened head and each ear doubly pierced for jangling attachments (now missing), the base in the form of a square-socled column, probably from a sistrum
4 in. (10.1 cm.) high
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拍品专文

Cf. The MacGregor Collection of Egyptian Antiquities, Sotheby's, London, 4 July 1922, lot 1310 and pl. XXXV, for a similar bronze group.