AN EGYPTIAN ALABASTER ROYAL HEAD

NEW KINGDOM, 19TH DYNASTY, CIRCA 1292-1185 B.C.

Details

AN EGYPTIAN ALABASTER ROYAL HEAD
NEW KINGDOM, 19TH DYNASTY, CIRCA 1292-1185 B.C.
Wearing a Nemes and false beard, with traces of Egyptian blue pigment
7 in. (17.7 cm.) high

Provenance

Countess Pes di Villamarina collection, England.
Egyptian, Greek and Roman antiquities; Sotheby's London, 10 April 1943, lot 51.
William R. Hearst (1863-1951) collection, New York and California.
Ernest Brummer (1891-1964) collection, Paris.
The Ernest Brummer Collection, Vol. II; Spink & Son and Galerie Koller, Zurich, 16-19 October, 1979, lot 506.
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. 196, no. 125.
Grimm-Stadelmann, 2012, p. 41, no. R-133.

The flaring breaks at the side of the neck, together with the remains of Egyptian blue stripes, indicate that the figure was wearing the royal Nemes. It has been suggested that the groove at the centre was the division between a frontal uraeus and vulture head.

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