A TURQUOISE AND YELLOW GLAZED COMPOSITION BES JAR, modelled in the form of a squatting figure of the god with tongue thrust out, wearing a yellow and brown spotted leopard skin over his back, holding a large storage jar with both hands, top of head and right arm damaged, Late Period, probably Dynasty XXVII (525-404 B.C.)

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A TURQUOISE AND YELLOW GLAZED COMPOSITION BES JAR, modelled in the form of a squatting figure of the god with tongue thrust out, wearing a yellow and brown spotted leopard skin over his back, holding a large storage jar with both hands, top of head and right arm damaged, Late Period, probably Dynasty XXVII (525-404 B.C.)
2½in. (6.2cm.) high

Lot Essay

Cf. Exhibition catalogue: Ancient Art: The Norbert Schimmel Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1974, no. 211

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