AN EGYPTIAN GREYWACKE NAOPHOROS

LATE PERIOD, 26TH DYNASTY, CIRCA 664-525 B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN GREYWACKE NAOPHOROS
LATE PERIOD, 26TH DYNASTY, CIRCA 664-525 B.C.
The upper part preserved, depicted kneeling, wearing a smooth rounded wig, with slightly smiling mouth, extended eye line and long, straight brows, part of back pillar remaining
7 ¾ in. (19.8 cm.) high

Provenance

Collection of Walter Stein, New York.
Property from the Estate of Walter Stein, New York; Sotheby's, New York, 9 December 1981.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 30 May 1986, lot 71.
Resandro collection, acquired from the above sale.

Exhibited

Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung; Berlin, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin; Munich, Staatliche Sammlung Ägyptischer Kunst Munchen; Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Gott und Götter im Alten Ägypten, 1992-1993.

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Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Schoske & Wildung, 1993, p. 214, no. 135.
Grimm-Stadelmann, 2012, p. 145, no. R-413.

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