Sale 1531
New York
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8 June 2005
Price realised
USD 4,200
Estimate
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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For a similar faience Aphrodite see no. 88 in Riefstahl, Ancient Egyptian Glass and Glazes in The Brooklyn Museum. The shabtis not illustrated.
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