A LARGE EGYPTIAN BRONZE OSIRIS
A LARGE EGYPTIAN BRONZE OSIRIS

LATE PERIOD-EARLY PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 664-150 B.C.

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A LARGE EGYPTIAN BRONZE OSIRIS
LATE PERIOD-EARLY PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 664-150 B.C.
Depicted mummiform, the arms folded on his chest, wearing a plumed atef-crown supported by ram horns and fronted by a uraeus, with long false beard with upturned tip, wearing an elaborate multi-strand collar with incised decoration, the counterpoise falling between the shoulder blades, holding a crook in the left hand and a flail in the right, the face with archaizing smile, the philtrum indicated, straight slender nose, large almond-shaped eyes, the eyes and brows inlaid with silver, upper lids, cosmetic lines and brows in raised relief, on an integral trapezoidal base
23½ in. (60 cm.) high
Provenance
with Franco Monti, Paris.
Private collection, Parma, Italy, acquired 1970s; and thence by descent to the present owner.

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Georgina Aitken
Georgina Aitken

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PUBLISHED:
Vogue, Italy, March, 1982.

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