ID 1334761
Lot 3 | AN EGYPTIAN WOOD FUNERARY BED LEG
Estimate value
£ 8 000 – 12 000
PTOLEMAIC PERIOD-ROMAN PERIOD, CIRCA 300 B.C.-300 A.D.
14 in. (35.5 cm.) high
Provenance
with Ralph Huntington Blanchard (1875-1936), Blanchard’s Egyptian Museum, Cairo.
Edward Drummond Libbey (1854-1925), founder of the Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio, acquired from the above in 1906.
Property of the Toledo Museum of Art, Sold to Benefit the Acquisitions Fund; Antiquities, Sotheby's, New York, 12 June 1993, lot 88.
U.S. private collection, acquired from the above.
Antiquities, Bonham's, London, 1 May 2008, lot 3.
with Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, 2009 (Art of the Ancient World, vol. XX, no. 194).
Acquired by the current owner form the above, 2010.
Literature
Catalogue of a Collection of Egyptian Antiquities Brought Together and Presented to the Toledo Museum of Art, 1906, p. 36, no. 230.
C. Dauphin, Animals in the Ancient World: The Levett Bestiary, Mougins, 2014, pp. 28, 85.
C. Dauphin, Les animaux dans le monde antique: Le bestiaire Levett, Mougins, 2016, p. 26, fig. 22, p. 76.
Exhibited
Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins, 2011-2023 (Inv. no. MMoCA638).
| Medium: | Wood |
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| Historical era: | Ptolemaic dynasty |
| Place of origin: | Ancient Egypt, Egypt, Africa |
| Auction house category: | Ancient Art & Antiquities |
| Medium: | Wood |
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| Historical era: | Ptolemaic dynasty |
| Place of origin: | Ancient Egypt, Egypt, Africa |
| Auction house category: | Ancient Art & Antiquities |
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