AN EGYPTIAN GRANITE BUST OF AN OFFICIAL

LATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXVI, 664-525 B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN GRANITE BUST OF AN OFFICIAL
LATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXVI, 664-525 B.C.
Wearing a smooth bag wig tucked behind his prominent well-detailed ears, the lobes indented, his oval face tapering to a round chin, with a broad nose and an upturned mouth, the philtrum indicated, his elongated eyes with heavy lids below slightly arching brows, with delineated angled clavicles
4 3/8 in. (11.1 cm.) high

Provenance

Harris D. Colt (d. 1973), New York; thence by descent.

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Lot Essay

For a similar treatment of the clavicles and wig, see the portrait of Bes, Prince of Mendes, now in Palermo, figs. 43-45, no. 20 in Bothmer, Egyptian Sculpture of the Late Period, 700 B.C. to A.D. 100. Bothmer notes, p. 23 op. cit., that the bulge of the wig at ear level and below, in addition to the naturalism of the anatomical details of the collar bone, are "in keeping with the style of this time."

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