LATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXX-XXXI, 380-332 B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE PHARAOH
LATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXX-XXXI, 380-332 B.C.
Solid cast, depicted kneeling with his legs together, his toes splayed, his arms lowered and bent at the elbows and projecting forward above the angled thighs, his well-modelled torso with broad shoulders, a slender waist and a drop-shaped navel, wearing a belted striated kilt, a striped nemes headcloth fronted by a uraeus with side loops, its tail running straight over the crown, and a broad collar, the details of the kilt, nemes, uraeus and broad collar carefully incised, his face with thin brows in relief, inclined slightly upward towards the bridge of the slender nose, the eyes with modelled lids, the upper extending beyond the lower at the outer corners, the cheekbones pronounced, the small mouth with full lips pursed into a slight smile, the chin rounded, the ears prominent and high on the head, rectangular tangs below the knees and the feet
6 in. (15.2 cm.) excluding tangs

Provenance

Octave Borelli Bey (1849-1911), Egypt and France. Collection Borelli Bey; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 11-13 June 1913, lot 118.
Lacour Collection, Paris, acquired in the first half of the 20th century.

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Octave Borelli Bey (1849-1911), Egypt and France.
Collection Borelli Bey; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 11-13 June 1913, lot 118. Lacour Collection, Paris, acquired in the first half of the 20th century.

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Descriptif du lot

For a related example see no. 249 in Hill, Royal Bronze Statuary from Ancient Egypt, with Special Attention to the Kneeling Pose.
For a Dynasty XXXI head in Berlin with similar features, thought to depict the Pharaoh Ahmose, see no. 21, p. 393 in Ziegler, ed., The Pharaohs.

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