AN EGYPTIAN COPPER OFFICIAL

MIDDLE KINGDOM, DYNASTY XII, 2040-1640 B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN COPPER OFFICIAL
MIDDLE KINGDOM, DYNASTY XII,
2040-1640 B.C.
Solid cast, depicted standing with the left leg advanced, the arms held along side the body, the hands fisted, clad in a kilt, and wearing a short wig, his torso naturalistic, tenons below his feet for insertion into a now-missing base
7 3/8 in. (18.7 cm.) high excluding tenons

來源

Nasli Heeramaneck, New York.
with Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, 1989 (Gods and Mortals, no. 132).

出版

R.S. Bianchi in J. Paul Getty Museum, Small Bronze Sculpture from the Ancient World, Malibu, 1990, p. 63 and fn. 21.
J.M. Eisenberg and R.S. Bianchi, Catalogue of the Egyptian and Near Eastern Bronzes in the Collection of John Kluge, New York, 1992, no. 89-04.

展覽

The Brooklyn Museum, New York, 1978-1985.

拍品專文

The ancient Egyptians first began to create solid metal figures, rather than figures of sheet metal over a wooden armature, during the course of the Middle Kingdom when copper figures such as this first appeared (see no. 12 in Ziegler, The Pharaohs and pp. 63-65 in Bianchi, "Egyptian Metal Statuary of the Third Intermediate Period (Circa 1070-656 B.C.) from Its Egyptian Antecedents to Its Samian Examples," in True and Podany, eds., The J. Paul Getty Museum, Small Bronze Sculpture from the Ancient World).