ID 820685
Lot 39 | AN EGYPTIAN GRANITE TORSO OF HOR-MAA-KHERU
Estimate value
$ 300 000 – 500 000
PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, REIGN OF PTOLEMY II-PTOLEMY VIII, CIRCA 285-116 B.C.
17 in. (43.1 cm.) high
Provenance
Art Market, Paris (based on custom-made wood base designed and stamped by Kichizô Inagaki (1876-1951), Paris).
with Charles Dikran Kelekian (1900-1982), New York (possibly inv. no. 4908).
Otto L. (1897-1966) and Eloise O. Spaeth (1902-1998), New York, acquired from the above.
Antiquities, Sotheby's, New York, 30 May 1986, lot 70.
Charles Pankow (1923-2004), San Francisco, acquired from the above.
The Charles Pankow Collection of Egyptian Art, Sotheby's, New York, 8 December 2004, lot 99.
Acquired by the current owner from the above.
Literature
H. De Meulenaere and P. MacKay, Mendes II, Warminster, 1976, pp. 185, 199, no. 60, pl. 24a-b.
R.S. Bianchi et al., Cleopatra’s Egypt: Age of the Ptolemies, New York, 1988, p. 120.
D. Klotz, "The Statue of the diokêtês Harchebi/Archibios Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art 47-12," Bulletin de l'Institut français d'archéologie orientale, vol. 109, 2009, p. 300, n. 143.
| Medium: | Granite, Stone |
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| Art style: | Ancient Art |
| Historical era: | Ptolemaic dynasty |
| Place of origin: | Ancient Egypt, Egypt, Africa |
| Auction house category: | Ancient Art & Antiquities, Sculptures, Statues & Figures |
| Medium: | Granite, Stone |
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| Art style: | Ancient Art |
| Historical era: | Ptolemaic dynasty |
| Place of origin: | Ancient Egypt, Egypt, Africa |
| Auction house category: | Ancient Art & Antiquities, Sculptures, Statues & Figures |
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