A BRONZE OPENWORK FURNITURE FRAGMENT, representing the Inundation god of fecundity, Hapy, wearing a papyrus clump headdress, and stepping forward, arms outstretched, holding an offering of a was-sceptre between two hes-jars, two strands terminating in ankh (life) signs falling from his hands, 7th-6th Century B.C.

细节

A BRONZE OPENWORK FURNITURE FRAGMENT, representing the Inundation god of fecundity, Hapy, wearing a papyrus clump headdress, and stepping forward, arms outstretched, holding an offering of a was-sceptre between two hes-jars, two strands terminating in ankh (life) signs falling from his hands, 7th-6th Century B.C.
11¼in. (28.5cm.) high

拍品专文

Cf. C. Insley Green, Temple Furniture from the Scared Animal Necropolis at North Saqqara, 1964-1976, London, 1987, no. 28, fig. 26; Catalogue of the Ernest Brummer Collection, Sotheby & Co., 16 November 1964, lot 53, together with bibliography