拍品 125
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AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE FIGURE OF AN APIS BULL
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AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE FIGURE OF AN APIS BULL

DYNASTY XXVI (664-525 B.C.), PROBABLY MEMPHIS

细节
AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE FIGURE OF AN APIS BULL
DYNASTY XXVI (664-525 B.C.), PROBABLY MEMPHIS
Finely modelled, depicted striding with left leg leading, the eyes overlaid with silver, wearing sun disc and uraeus headdress, with incised decoration comprising an elaborate collar with inverted lotus flowers, over the withers a winged scarab, the centre back with a three-panelled, fringed blanket with dotted net pattern and scored triangles, and a vulture over the rump with wings spread carrying shen-signs in its claws, on integral base with edge inscription reading: "Osiris-Apis, given life, Kery son of Bak-(en)-nef(y)", highlighted in white, mounted
4½ in. (11.4 cm.) long
展览
Ägypten: Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig, 1997; and Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva, 1997-1998.
注意事项
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium

拍品专文

PUBLISHED:
Animals, 1981, I, no. 61; M. Page-Gasser and A. B. Wiese, Ägypten, Augenblicke der Ewigkeit, Mainz, 1997, pp. 251-252, no. 166; and Noah's Ark, 1997, no. 142.

This exquisitely incised and modelled bull was known to Leo as "Ferdinand".

See illustration on previous page.