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    8 June 2005

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    • AN EGYPTIAN FAIENCE APHRODITE
    Lot 32

    AN EGYPTIAN FAIENCE APHRODITE ANADYOMENE

    ROMAN PERIOD, CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.

    Price realised

    USD 4,200

    Estimate

    USD 4,000 - USD 6,000

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    AN EGYPTIAN FAIENCE APHRODITE ANADYOMENE
    ROMAN PERIOD, CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.
    Blue in color, the nude goddess depicted in contrapposto, her arms raised, holding her long cork-screw locks in her hands, her garment draped over a columnar support to her left, an additional back-pillar rising to her buttocks; together with two faience shabtis, Late Period, Dynasty XXX, 380-343 B.C., each blue in color, depicted mummiform, wearing a tripartite wig and false beard, holding agricultural implements
    5¾ in. (14.6 cm.) high (3)

    Provenance

    with Hakim Egyptian Art, New York, 1959.

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    Lot Essay

    For a similar faience Aphrodite see no. 88 in Riefstahl, Ancient Egyptian Glass and Glazes in The Brooklyn Museum.

    The shabtis not illustrated.

    Other information

    Pre-Lot Text

    THE PROPERTY OF A TEXAS COLLECTION

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