This is the rating and price for A Bronze Figure of a King, Kushite, 25th Dynasty, 750-656 B.C., probably King Taharqa

Description : (690-664 B.C.), kneeling with his arms held before him, and wearing a pleated royal kilt with decorated belt, necklace formerly decorated with ram-head pendant and terminals, and the Nubian cap-crown with streamers falling behind and fragmentary double uraeus, the bodies of the two serpents coiled over the crown; remains of gilding. Height 215/16 in. (7.5 cm.). (690-664 B.C.), kneeling with his arms held before him, and wearing a pleated royal kilt with decorated belt, necklace formerly decorated with ram-head pendant and terminals, and the Nubian cap-crown with streamers falling behind and fragmentary double uraeus, the bodies of the two serpents coiled over the crown; remains of gilding. Height 215/16 in. (7.5 cm.) Formerly on loan to The Brooklyn Museum of Art, 1975-1999 Provenance: Peter Sharrer Ancient Art, New York, 1973 Published: Robert S. Bianchi, "Egyptian Art from the Bastis Collection,'' Apollo 108, London, September 1978, p. 153, fig. 1 the ART gallery 22, 2, 1978, p. 103 Africa in Antiquity, The Arts of Ancient Nubia and the Sudan I, Brooklyn, 1978, p. 33R Africa in Antiquity, The Arts of Ancient Nubia and the Sudan II, Brooklyn, 1978, pp. 49, 53, and 171, no. 82, illus. Antiquities from the Collection of Christos G. Bastis, catalogue of the exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1987, no. 12, illus. Bernard V. Bothmer notes: "In the eighth century B.C. when the rulers of Kush, the legendary kingdom of Nubia on the Upper Nile, invaded Egypt, they only knew of Pharaonic arts and crafts from what had been left behind in their own country by the kings of Dynasties XVIII-XX. After Dynasty XX, that is, after the eleventh century B.C., Egyptian domination of the Nubian heartland between the First and Fifth Cataracts ceased, and the Nubians were left to their own devices. All contact appears to have been lost between the former master, Egypt, and the slave, the land of Kush. Thus, it was not until the Nubians conquered Egypt in about 745 B.C., that they came to know the riches of the lower Nile Valley, and they quickly adopted, and adapted to their taste, Egyptian sculpture, relief, and many of the minor arts, among them jewelry making and bronze casting. Following a long-established Egyptian custom, the Kushite rulers had their own images carved in stone, or cast in bronze, and set up in temples, not only in Egypt, but also in their homeland.'' Cf. Russmann, "Further Aspects of Kushite Art in Brooklyn,'' figs. 4-7, for a closely related bronze kneeling king.
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