AN EGYPTIAN GREEN PERIDOTITE HEAD OF A PRIEST

PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 332-30 B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN GREEN PERIDOTITE HEAD OF A PRIEST
PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 332-30 B.C.
Sculpted in idealizing style, with a high domed forehead and shaven egg-shaped skull, his face with narrow almond-shaped eyes, the modelled brows gently arching above, with prominent cheek bones, and rounded thick lips pursed into a slight smile
3 5/16 in. (8.4 cm.) high

Provenance

Arthur Sambon (1867-1947) collection, Paris.
with Ernest Brummer (1891-1964), Paris.
The Ernest Brummer Collection, Vol. II; Spink & Son and Galerie Koller, Zurich, 16-19 October, 1979, lot 526.

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Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Grimm-Stadelmann, 2012, p. 97, no. R360.

For the use of peridotite in Egyptian sculpture see Hardwick, 2009, pp. 183-188. He writes that the 'only known source of the stone is St. John’s Island in the Red Sea, near the port of Berenike and on the same latitude as Aswan'.

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