Lot Essay
PUBLISHED:
Grimm-Stadelmann, 2012, p. 151, no. R-437.
Grimm-Stadelmann, 2012, p. 151, no. R-437.
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LATE PERIOD, CIRCA 664-332 B.C.
Details
AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE HARPOCRATES
LATE PERIOD, CIRCA 664-332 B.C.
Depicted nude, striding forward, with right forefinger pointing to his lips, his left hand clenched by his side, wearing a plaited side lock and headdress with uraeus, crowned by a horned sun-disc incised with a figure of Harporcrates emerging from a lotus flower, surmounted by an atef-crown, his eyes inlaid with electrum, the base with traces of a dedicatory inscription
7 in. (17.8 cm.) high
LATE PERIOD, CIRCA 664-332 B.C.
Depicted nude, striding forward, with right forefinger pointing to his lips, his left hand clenched by his side, wearing a plaited side lock and headdress with uraeus, crowned by a horned sun-disc incised with a figure of Harporcrates emerging from a lotus flower, surmounted by an atef-crown, his eyes inlaid with electrum, the base with traces of a dedicatory inscription
7 in. (17.8 cm.) high
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 8 December 1993, lot 158.
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