AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE SISTRUM HANDLE

PTOLEMAIC-ROMAN PERIOD, CIRCA 100 B.C.-100 A.D.

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AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE SISTRUM HANDLE
PTOLEMAIC-ROMAN PERIOD, CIRCA 100 B.C.-100 A.D.
The handle in the form of the god Bes, wearing an incised leopard skin cape hanging down his back, standing on a papyrus column supported by two recumbent lions with thick manes and their tails curling over their haunches, his feather headdress supporting a double-headed bust of the cow-eared goddess Hathor, a uraeus on each shoulder, one wearing the rush-atef crown with sun-disc and rams horns, the other wearing a plumed sun-disc with cows horns
8 ¼ in. (21 cm.) high

Provenance

Greta S. Heckett collection, Pittsburgh, acquired from Carlebach Gallery, 1958.
Sotheby's New York, 1 December 1972, lot 79.
Ancient Bronzes from the Estate of Greta S. Heckett; Sotheby's, New York, 21 May 1977, lot 374.
with Mele Gallery, Connecticut.
Resandro collection, acquired from the above.

Exhibited

Pittsburg, Carnegie Institute Museum of Art, Ancient Bronzes: a selection from the Heckett Collection, Heckmeres Highlands, Valencia, Pennsylvania, 5 November 1964-10 Janaury 1965.
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.

Sale room notice

Please note that this lot was not offered in the Sotheby’s New York 1 December 1972 sale

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Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Carnegie Institute, 1964, no. 62.
Schoske & Wildung, 1993, p. 184, no. 121.
Grimm-Stadelmann, 2012, p. 225, no. R-736.

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