ID 1248356
Lot 18 | AN EGYPTIAN WOOD POLYCHROME AND GILT ANTHROPOID COFFIN FOR DJEDHOR
Estimate value
£ 400 000 – 600 000
LATE PERIOD - PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 400-30 B.C.
80 in. (203 cm.) high
Provenance
with Alexander Sandmeier, Göttingen, (Galerie Ägyptischer Kunst Göttingen, no. 53, 1975).
Belgian private collection, Mr A., acquired from the above; thence by descent.
Literature
E. Gubel, Van Nijl tot Schelde; Du Nil à l'Escaut, exhibition catalogue, Brussels, 1991, pp. 248-249, 251, 253, no. 337.
R. Meffrè, 'The Coffin of Somtus from Abusir el-Meleq (Cairo, Egyptian Museum JE 36806): Egyptological Study', in H. Strudwick and J. Dawson, eds., Ancient Egyptian Coffins. Past-Present-Future, Oxford, 2016, p. 77.
Exhibited
Bank Brussel Lambert, Brussels, 5 April - 9 June 1991.
| Art style: | Ancient Art |
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| Place of origin: | Ancient Egypt, Egypt, Africa |
| Auction house category: | Ancient Art & Antiquities |
| Art style: | Ancient Art |
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| Place of origin: | Ancient Egypt, Egypt, Africa |
| Auction house category: | Ancient Art & Antiquities |
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