AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE ENTHRONED HARPORATES

LATE PERIOD, CIRCA 664-332 B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE ENTHRONED HARPORATES
LATE PERIOD, CIRCA 664-332 B.C.
With silver-inlaid eyes and right forefinger raised to his lips, wearing a plaited side-lock with remains of silver inlay, cap and uraeus, sitting on an elaborate throne decorated with open-work papyrus flowers and feet in the shape of lion paws, a winged Isis as back-rest and the two arm-rests in the shape of lions, at either side of his legs, in a smaller scale, the lion-headed goddess Sekhmet and another deity wearing a horned sun-disc headdress, possibly Isis or Hathor, the gods Horus and Thoth pouring libations at his feet, and two figures of Bes flanking a kneeling priest holding a shrine on his head
8 ¾ in. (22 cm.) high; 6 ¾ in. (17.2 cm.) long

Provenance

with Nabil Anawati, Montreal, early 1970s.
with Mele Gallery, Connecticut.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 11 December, 2002, lot 108.
Resandro collection, acquired from the above sale.

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Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Grimm-Stadelmann, 2012, p. 152, no. R-442.

For another elaborate Late Period bronze group showing an enthroned Isis suckling Horus-the-child, standing figures of Mut and Nephthys and three uraei at front, see the British Museum, London, acc. no. 1889,1012.79.
For a similar use of lions as part of a throne in a Late Period bronze now in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art see acc. no. AC1992.152.57.

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