AN EGYPTIAN GREYWACKE NAOPHOROS

Lot 10
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ID 1472648
Lot 10 | AN EGYPTIAN GREYWACKE NAOPHOROS
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$ 20 000 – 30 000
AN EGYPTIAN GREYWACKE NAOPHOROS
LATE PERIOD, 26TH DYNASTY, 664-525 B.C
7 ¾ in. (19.6 cm.) high




Provenance

Possibly with either Maison/Galerie Platt, Paris or Willibald Duschnitz (1884-1976), Vienna and Teresopolis, Brazil.
Leo C. Collins, New York.
Chinese & Japanese Art, Egyptian & Other Antiquities, Parke-Bernet, New York, 1-2 May 1952, lot 264.
Walter Stein, New York; thence by descent.
Property from the Estate of Walter Stein, New York; Antiquities, Sotheby's, New York, 9 December 1981, lot 168.
Antiquities, Sotheby's, New York, 30 May 1986, lot 71.
The Resandro Collection, Munich, acquired from the above.
The Resandro Collection, Christie's, London, 6 December 2016, lot 133.
with Ariadne Galleries, New York and London, acquired from the above.
Acquired by the current owner from the above, 2017.



Literature

S. Schoske and D. Wildung, Gott und Götter im Alten Ägypten, Mainz am Rhein, 1992, p. 214, no. 135.
J. Malek, et al., Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Statues, Reliefs and Paintings, vol. 8, pt. 2, Oxford, 1999, p. 878, no. 801-763-750.
I. Grimm-Stadelmann, ed., Aesthetic Glimpses: Masterpieces of Egyptian Art, The Resandro Collection, Munich, 2012, p. 145, no. R-413.



Exhibited

Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung; Munich, Staatliche Sammlung Ägyptischer Kunst; Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Gott und Götter im Alten Ägypten, 1992-1993.
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