Lot 33
33
AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE SCULPTOR'S MODEL
PROPERTY FROM A GERMAN PRIVATE COLLECTION
AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE SCULPTOR'S MODEL

30TH DYNASTY TO EARLY PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 4TH-3RD CENTURY B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE SCULPTOR'S MODEL
30TH DYNASTY TO EARLY PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 4TH-3RD CENTURY B.C.
In the form of a bust of a pharaoh, wearing a nemes-headcloth, fronted by a uraeus, its tail extending back over the crown of his head, his idealized face with almond-shaped eyes elongated at their inner and outer canthi and fleshy lips, the proper left side of the face unfinished, sculpted only in flat planes at oblique angles to one another, the back, underside and lappets preserving gridlines
4¾ in. (12.1 cm.) high
Provenance
with Charles Ede, London, 1978.

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Lot Essay

For two similar examples see nos. 8 and 9, pl. 11 in N. Tomoum The Sculptors' Models of the Late and Ptolemaic Periods. For another, also partly unfinished, see no. 11 in E. Young, "Sculptors' Models or Votives?, In Defense of a Scholarly Tradition," in Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. 22.

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