Lot 15
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AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE STANDARD FINIAL
PROPERTY OF A EUROPEAN HISTORIAN
AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE STANDARD FINIAL

NEW KINGDOM TO THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XVII-XXV, 1550-712 B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE STANDARD FINIAL
NEW KINGDOM TO THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XVII-XXV, 1550-712 B.C.
Depicting Wepwawet, the slender canid standing alert with the forelegs and hind legs paired together, the elongated body with minimal modelling, the head facing forward and raised, with upright pointed ears, the details of the eyes incised, including the brows, lids, pupils, and cosmetic lines, the brows merging into a thin ridge along the length of the tapering snout, the mouth tightly closed, with the lips protruding in relief, rectangular tenons below the feet for insertion
10¼ in. (26 cm.) long
Provenance
with Marianne Maspero, Paris, 1970s.
French Private Collection.
Acquired by the current owner in 1981.
Literature
R.A. Lunsingh Scheurleer, ed., Egypte, Eender en Anders, Amsterdam, 1984, p. 30, no. 31, ill. p. 117.
Exhibited
Amsterdam, Allard Pierson Museum, Egypte, Eender en Anders, 1984.

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Lot Essay

This large solid cast bronze figure of the jackal Wepwawet is of exceptional technical and aesthetic quality. For another of similar scale, but missing its head, tail and forelegs, see no. 192 in Goddio, Egypt's Sunken Treasure. For a relief depicting a Wepwawet standard finial in a procession celebrating Amenhotep III's 30th Year Jubilee, see pl. 113 in Schiff Giorgini, Soleb V, section II.

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