Lot 170
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AN EGYPTIAN ROYAL 'AMARNA' PAINTED SANDSTONE RELIEF FRAGMENT OF QUEEN NEFERTITI
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AN EGYPTIAN ROYAL 'AMARNA' PAINTED SANDSTONE RELIEF FRAGMENT OF QUEEN NEFERTITI

EARLY REIGN OF AKHENATEN, CIRCA 1350 B.C., PROBABLY FROM KARNAK (ATEN TEMPLE)

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AN EGYPTIAN ROYAL 'AMARNA' PAINTED SANDSTONE RELIEF FRAGMENT OF QUEEN NEFERTITI
EARLY REIGN OF AKHENATEN, CIRCA 1350 B.C., PROBABLY FROM KARNAK (ATEN TEMPLE)
The red painted profile head wearing a long side-lock falling over her left shoulder, and a broad collar and arm bands, lower part of a cartouche above her head with traces of blue pigment, mounted
8¼ x 6½ in. (21 x 16.6 cm.)
Provenance
Formerly in the Girod-Mallon collection, Paris.
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VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

For a similar style of side-lock adopted from the queen by her ladies-in-waiting (who are never shown, as here, with the elongated heads characteristic of the royal family), cf. C. Aldred, Akhenaten and Nefertiti, The Brooklyn Museum, 1973, p. 123, no. 43 and p. 124, no. 44.

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