Lot 31
31
AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE DOUBLE-SIDED SCULPTOR'S MODEL
PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTION 
AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE DOUBLE-SIDED SCULPTOR'S MODEL

PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 2ND CENTURY B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE DOUBLE-SIDED SCULPTOR'S MODEL
PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 2ND CENTURY B.C.
Each side sculpted in raised relief, one depicting the head of a prince in the guise of Harpokrates, the corpulent child in profile to the right, wearing a cap-crown fronted by a uraeus, the streamer falling onto his shoulder, wearing the side lock of youth and a crescent-shaped earring with a globular pendant; the other side depicting the head of a pharaoh in profile to the right, wearing the Blue Crown fronted by a uraeus, its tail following the upper curved surface of the crown; preserving traces of pigment on each face and crown
5¼ in. (13.3 cm.) high
Provenance
Fernand and Beatrice Leval, acquired in Egypt and brought to New York, 1952.
The Collection of Fernand and Beatrice Leval; Christie's, New York, 8 June 2005, lot 26.

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For similar profile images of late Dynasty XXX and early Ptolemaic pharaohs wearing the Blue Crown see pls. LXXXVIIb (Nectanebo II) and XCVa (Alexander the Great) in Mysliwiec, Royal Portraiture of the Dynasties XXI-XXX.
For a sculptor's model with two royal portraits (as here), but depicted together on one side, with a queen and prince as Harpokrates, see no. 47 in Walker and Higgs, eds., Cleopatra of Egypt.

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